reverse

IPA: rɪvˈɝs

The opposite of something.
The act of going backwards; a reversal.
A piece of misfortune; a setback.
(numismatics) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
(surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

(transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
(transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
(transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
(transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
(obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
(obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
(obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
(law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
(ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
(chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
(rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
(rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
(aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
To overthrow; to subvert.
(computing) Short for reverse-engineer. [To derive or duplicate the design, technical specifications, manufacturing methods, or functionality of an object by studying an existing product, prototype, etc.]

Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
(rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
(botany) Reversed.
(genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.

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