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Reversing
- verb - cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
- change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"
- rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"
- turn inside out or upside down
Reversion
- noun - (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- a failure to maintain a higher state
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- returning to a former state
- turning in the opposite direction
Reversive
- adjective - tending to be turned back
Reverting
- verb - a failure to maintain a higher state
- go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
- tending to return to an earlier state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
Revertive
- - Reverting, or tending to revert; returning.
Revetting
- verb - construct a revetment
- face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain; "face an embankment"
Reviewing
- verb - appraise critically; "She reviews books for the New York Times"; "Please critique this performance"
- hold a review (of troops)
- look at again; examine again; "let's review your situation"
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember; "she reviewed her achievements with pride"
- refresh one's memory; "I reviewed the material before the test"
Revolting
- verb - cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
- fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
- make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
Revolving
- verb - cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
- move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
- turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"