renverse

Verb

reverse (third-person singular simple present reverses, present participle reversing, simple past and past participle reversed)

1. (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
   • to reverse the order of books on a shelf
2. (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
   • A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.1672, William Temple, Essay on the Original and Nature of Government
3. (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
4. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
   • All trends reverse eventually.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To return, come back.
   • Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
6. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
   • And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 48

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