reversed
Sayri-VURST/ɹɪˈvɝst/UK/ɹɪˈvɜːst/
- 1Past tense and past participle of reverse. Use it for something that was turned around or undone earlier.
She reversed the car slowly out of the narrow garage.
The ruling was reversed when new evidence appeared.
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- 3Turned upside down, so the part that normally sits on top ends up on the bottom.
Like a picture hung upside down on the wall.
In this orchid, the flower is reversed, so its lip points downward.
The reversed bloom looked upside down next to the others.
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reversed is a form of reverse
reverse, verb: To turn something around so it faces or runs the other way. Full entry
- Spelling
- reverse → reversed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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