reverse

re|verse1 [ rı`vɜrs ] verb **

1. ) transitive to change the order or development of events, a process, or a situation to be the opposite of what it was:

The effects of the disease can only be reversed by a bone-marrow donation.

The stock market reversed course and closed with a modest gain.

a ) LEGAL to change a court decision to be the opposite of what it was:

The appeals court reversed his conviction and ordered his release.

b ) to change your views, policies, etc. to the opposite ones:

The new government set about reversing previous policies.

c ) reverse yourself AMERICAN to change a decision you have made, for example because people have criticized it

2. ) intransitive or transitive to go backward in a vehicle or to make a vehicle do this:

She reversed into the parking space.

3. ) transitive to turn something so that the part that is usually on the outside is on the inside:

You can reverse the jacket so that the pattern is on the outside.

4. ) transitive to trade your activities or status with that of another person:

He's always taught me, but now the roles are reversed and I can teach him.

reverse the charges BRITISH

to make the person you are calling on the telephone agree to pay for the call

reverse

re|verse 2 [ rı`vɜrs ] adjective only before noun *

opposite to what is usual or to what existed previously:

Now arrange the numbers in reverse order.

reverse

re|verse 3 [ rı`vɜrs ] noun *

1. ) the reverse the opposite of something:

The situation is the reverse of what it seems.

Quite the reverse is true.

2. ) the reverse the back side of a flat object:

There's a picture of an eagle on the reverse of the coin.

3. ) uncount the position in which you put a GEAR in a vehicle to make it go backward:

put something in reverse: Put the car in reverse.