renverse

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/ɹɪnˈvɜː(ɹ)s/

adjective

Backwards, contourné, facing the opposite direction (sinister/dexter) than usual.

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renversé
OriginOld French renverser →
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Meanings

verbrenverse (third-person singular simple present renverses, present participle renversing, simple past and past participle renversed)

present singular third person renverses · participle present renversing · participle past renversed · past renversed

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of reverse.

    whose shield he bears renverst

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41
adjectiverenverse (not comparable)
  1. datednot comparablegovernmentBackwards, contourné, facing the opposite direction (sinister/dexter) than usual.

    Samuel Coggan. Lisbon, May 19, 1712; letter to David Jeffries de Co. Round seal, a lion rampant renversé.

    1877, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 58
    1 more example

    The arms [on the 1790 Gelderland duit] may be thus blazoned: Party per pale, 1. azure, a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules, 2. or, a lion rampant renverse sable, armed and langued as before.

    1909, Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, page 218

    Synonyms: renversé

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveBackwards, contourné, facing the opposite direction (sinister/dexter) than usual.

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renversé

Origin

  1. Old Frenchrenverser
  2. Englishrenverse

From Old French renverser. Equivalent to re- + inverse.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with renverse

universereversenurseworsediverseversepurseconversetraversetransversereimburseperversedisperseimmerseaversecoerceterseobversehearsemultiversedisburseperserecurseburse
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APA

renverse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/renverse

MLA

“renverse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/renverse. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “renverse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/renverse.

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