A change in fortune from better to worse; a setback: suffered financial reverses.
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A change to an opposite position, condition, or direction.
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A mechanism, such as a gear in a motor vehicle, that is used to reverse movement.
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Football An offensive play in which a back running in one direction executes a handoff to a back running in the opposite direction.
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Movement in an opposite direction.
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adjective
Causing backward movement: a reverse gear.
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Having the back showing or in view of the observer.
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Moving, acting, or organized in a manner contrary to the usual.
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Printing Printed in such a way that the normally colored part appears white against a colored or black background.
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Turned backward in position, direction, or order.
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verb-transitive
Law To revoke or annul (a decision or decree, for example).
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To cause (an engine or a mechanism) to function in reverse.
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To cause to adopt a contrary viewpoint.
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To change to the opposite: reversed their planned course of action.
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To exchange the positions of; transpose.
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verb-intransitive
To reverse the action of an engine.
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To turn or move in the opposite direction.
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verb
To turn completely about in position or direction.
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To turn upside down .
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To cause to take an opposite point of view .
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as.
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To overthrow, set aside, or make void (a legal decision) by a contrary decision.
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