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intervert

intervert verb: to turn to another course or use.

Verb

intervert (third-person singular simple present interverts, present participle interverting, simple past and past participle interverted)

  1. (formal, transitive) To turn to another course or use.
  2. (formal, intransitive) To undergo interversion; to exchange places.
    • And so little could Watt support, on certain days, on the one hand the pressure of Mrs. Gorman from above, and on the other the thrust of Mrs. Gorman from below, that no fewer than two, or three, or four, or five, or six, or seven, or eight, or nine, or ten, or eleven, or even twelve, or even...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Forms of intervert

third-person singular presentinterverts
present participleinterverting
past participleinterverted
pastinterverted

Origin of intervert

From Latin interverto.

Questions about intervert

What does intervert mean?
Intervert means to turn to another course or use.
What part of speech is intervert?
Intervert is a verb.
What is the past tense of intervert?
The past tense of intervert is interverted.

Words near intervert in the dictionary

  1. intervents
  2. intervenue
  3. interverbal
  4. interversion
  5. interversions
  6. intervert
  7. intervertebral
  8. intervertebral disc
  9. intervertebral discs
  10. intervertebrally
  11. interverted

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