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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reverse /rɪˈvəːs/

▶verb

1 move backwards.
■ (of an engine) work in a contrary direction.

2 turn the other way round or up or inside out.

3 make the opposite of what it was: the damage done to the ozone layer may be reversed.
■ swap (positions or functions).

4 Law revoke or annul (a judgement by a lower court or authority).

▶adjective

1 going in or turned towards the opposite direction.
■ operating or behaving in a way opposite to that which is usual or expected.

2 Geology denoting a fault in which a relative downward movement occurred in the strata on the underside of the fault plane.

▶noun

1 a complete change of direction or action.
■ American Football a play in which the direction of attack is reversed.

2 reverse gear.

3 (the reverse) the opposite to that previously stated.

4 a setback or defeat.

5 the opposite side or face to the observer.
■ a left-hand page of an open book, or the back of a loose document.

■ the side of a coin or medal bearing the value or secondary design.

– phrases
reverse arms hold a rifle with the butt upwards.
reverse the charges make the recipient of a telephone call responsible for payment.

– derivatives
reversely adverb,
reverser noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. revers, reverse (n.), reverser (v.), from L. revers-, revertere ‘turn back’.

'reverse' also found in these Oxford entries:

anapaest - back - back-pedal - backside - backtrack - backwards - cart - commutate - decondition - disaffirm - equilibrium - exergue - flip side - head - inverse - overturn - R - recurrent - repoussé - retrograde - retrovirus - revers - reverse engineering - reverse gear - reverse osmosis - reverse takeover - roll - screwball - shadow stitch - thrust - thumb - transcriptase - turn - un- - undo - unmake - verso - Zener diode

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