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evert
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun evert has 1 sense
- evert(n = noun.person) chris evert, chrissie evert, christine marie evert - United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954); Array is a kind of tennis player
Derived form verb evert1
Verb evert has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
evert, v. t. [L. evertere. See Everse.].
- To overthrow; to subvert. Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
- To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
evert, v.tr. Physiol. turn (an organ etc.) outwards or inside out.
Derivative
eversion n.
Etymology
L evertere (as E-, vertere vers- turn)
ROGET THESAURUS
evert
Change
VB change, alter, vary, wax and wane, modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume, work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce, transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume, metamorphose, ring the changes, innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse, disturb, convert into.
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