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CHANGE BY REVERSAL
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change to the contrary
Example:
public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern
Synonyms:
change by reversal; reverse; turn
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "change by reversal" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change by reversal"):
alternate; flip; flip-flop; interchange; switch; tack (reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action))
turn the tables; turn the tide (cause a complete reversal of the circumstances)
commutate (reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current)
exchange; switch; switch over (change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence)
correct; rectify; right (make right or correct)
falsify (falsify knowingly)
commute; permute; transpose (change the order or arrangement of)
metamorphose; transfigure; transmogrify (change completely the nature or appearance of)
regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)
desynchronise; desynchronize (cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times)
deconsecrate; desecrate; unhallow (remove the consecration from a person or an object)
undo (cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
