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unreversing

unreversing is the present participle and gerund of unreverse.

Meaning of unreverse

Verb

unreverse (third-person singular simple present unreverses, present participle unreversing, simple past and past participle unreversed)

  1. (transitive) To restore from a reversed state; to reverse again, so as to turn the right way round.
    • Unreversing the propeller is accomplished by moving the throttle forward from the reverse position.1955, Northrop Institute of Technology, Charles Edward Chapel, Aircraft Power Plants, page 299

Questions about unreversing

What is unreversing the present participle and gerund of?
Unreversing is the present participle and gerund of unreverse.

Words near unreversing in the dictionary

  1. unreversal
  2. unreverse
  3. unreversed
  4. unreverses
  5. unreversible
  6. unreversing
  7. unreverted
  8. unrevertible
  9. unreverting
  10. unrevested
  11. unrevetted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unreversing (page history and authors); unreverse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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