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REVERSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turned about in order or relation
Example:
transposed letters
Synonyms:
converse; reversed; transposed
Classified under:
Similar:
backward (directed or facing toward the back or rear)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Turned inside out and resewn
Example:
the reversed collar looked as good as new
Classified under:
Similar:
turned (moved around an axis or center)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb reverse
Context examples:
I might, it is true, have reversed my boots, as I have done on similar occasions, but the sight of three sets of tracks in one direction would certainly have suggested a deception.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"However, we don’t yet know how exposures and lifestyle factors may affect biologic age or whether this process can be reversed."
(Older biologic age linked to elevated breast cancer risk, National Institutes of Health)
This reduced blood flow can eventually lead to impaired cognition that could be reversed by changing back to a normal diet.
(Hold the salt: gut reaction may impair the brains of mice, National Institutes of Health)
If you had just reversed the nod and the bow, it would have been right, said Amy reprovingly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Cardiac arrest should be used to signify an event as described above that is reversed, usually by CPR, and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.
(Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Cardiac arrest may be reversed by CPR, and/or defibrillation, cardioversion or cardiac pacing.
(Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)
They found that starved worms exposed to a magnetic field that was oriented opposite to the local Earth’s magnetic field reversed their burrowing behavior; they migrated up, suggesting they sensed magnetic fields.
(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)
An event in the personal medical histroy of cardiac arrest that is reversed, usually by CPR and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.
(History of Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)
The date of a cardiac arrest event that was reversed, usually by cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.
(Date of Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)
Our position was utterly reversed.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
