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Reversed

of Reverse

Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.

Related Definitions:

And, Annulled, As, Bot, Changed, Contrary, Decree, End, For, Judgment, Of, Or, Reverse, Reversed, Shell, Side, Sinistral, Sinistrorse, Specifically, Spiral, Substituted, The, To, Turned

Reversed Quotations

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
Frank Carson

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
Jules Verne

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Mary Pickford

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.
Thomas Menino

Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.
Joe Shuster

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
Estelle Morris

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.
Richard Morris

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.
William Joyce

Reversed Translations

reversed in Afrikaans is teenoorgesteld
reversed in Dutch is omgekeerd, averechts, tegengesteld
reversed in Finnish is vastakkainen
reversed in French is inverse
reversed in Portuguese is invertido

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