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{
"term": "reverse",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "reverse",
"heSheIt": "reverses"
},
"pastSimple": "reversed",
"pastParticiple": "reversed",
"ingForm": "reversing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to change something completely so that it is the opposite of what it was before",
"sensetop": "reverse something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Falling birth rates may **reverse the trend** towards early retirement."
},
{
"text": "to reverse a procedure/process"
},
{
"text": "The government has failed to reverse the economic decline."
},
{
"text": "It is sometimes possible to arrest or reverse the disease."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["dramatically", "completely", "exactly"],
"verb + reverse": ["seek to", "try to", "fail to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to change a previous decision, law, etc. to the opposite one",
"sensetop": "reverse something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The Court of Appeal **reversed the decision**."
},
{
"text": "The policy is likely to be reversed if there is a change of government."
},
{
"text": "to reverse a judgement"
}
],
"synonyms": "revoke",
"topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to turn something the opposite way around or change the order of something around",
"sensetop": "reverse something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Writing is reversed in a mirror."
},
{
"text": "You should reverse the order of these pages."
},
{
"text": "To solve the puzzle, simply reverse the order of the numbers."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["dramatically", "completely", "exactly"],
"verb + reverse": ["seek to", "try to", "fail to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to exchange the positions or functions of two things",
"sensetop": "reverse something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It felt as if we had reversed our roles of parent and child."
},
{
"text": "She used to work for me, but our situations are now reversed."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to admit you were wrong or to stop having a particular position in an argument",
"sensetop": "reverse yourself (on something)",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He has reversed himself on a dozen issues."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "when a vehicle or its driver reverses or the driver reverses a vehicle, the vehicle goes backwards",
"sensetop": "reverse something",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He reversed around the corner."
},
{
"text": "She reversed into a parking space."
},
{
"text": "Caution! This truck is reversing."
},
{
"text": "Now reverse the car.",
"contextForm": "reverse something"
},
{
"text": "He reversed slowly out of the garage."
},
{
"text": "She carefully reversed the lorry up the narrow driveway."
},
{
"text": "The car reversed into a hedge."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["slowly", "in", "out"],
"preposition": ["into", "out of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "to make a phone call that will be paid for by the person you are calling, not by you",
"sensetop": "reverse (the) charges",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I want to reverse the charges, please."
}
],
"topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːs/",
"audio": "re/reverse/reverse__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːsɪz/",
"audio": "re/reverse/reverses__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːst/",
"audio": "re/reverse/reversed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːsɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/reverse/reversing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːrs/",
"audio": "re/reverse/reverse__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːrsɪz/",
"audio": "re/reverse/reverses__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːrst/",
"audio": "re/reverse/reversed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːrsɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/reverse/reversing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French revers, reverse (nouns), reverser (verb), from Latin reversus ‘turned back’, past participle of revertere, from re- ‘back’ + vertere ‘to turn’."
}