Reverses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REVERSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• REVERSE, to turn or move in the opposite direction
• move backwards
• cause (a vehicle) to move backwards
• (of an engine) work in a contrary direction
• make (something) the opposite of what it was
• exchange (the position or function) of two people or things
• revoke or annul (a judgement, sentence, or decree made by a lower court or authority)
• turn (something) the other way round or up or inside out
• make (type or a design) appear as white in a block of solid colour or a half-tone
NOUN:
• a complete change of direction or action
• reverse gear on a motor vehicle; the position of a gear lever or selector corresponding to this
• a play in which a player reverses the direction of attack by passing the ball to a teammate moving in the opposite direction
• the opposite to that previously stated
• an adverse change of fortune; a setback or defeat
• the opposite side or face to the observer
• a left-hand page of an open book, or the back of a loose document.
• the side of a coin or medal bearing the value or secondary design.
• the design or inscription on the reverse of a coin or medal.
ADJECTIVE:
• going in or turned towards the direction opposite to that previously stated
• operating, behaving, or ordered in a way opposite to that which is usual or expected
• (of a voltage applied to a semiconductor junction) in the direction which does not allow significant current to flow.
• denoting a fault in which a relative downward movement occurred in the strata on the underside of the fault plane.

Words related to REVERSES

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How to use REVERSES in a sentence

• Despite these reverses there remains much in favor of his character.
• I admired his heroism in sustaining himself so well under such reverses.
• I was simply delighted, after so many reverses, to win a match against this player.
• Reverses do I call them? How trifling are my troubles to the millions of my fellow creatures who are afflicted with all the dreadful calamities incident to this life.
• Abd-el-Moumen died in 1163 and was followed by his son, who, though he suffered reverses in Spain, was also a great ruler.
• He declared himself satisfied with what had been effected and said that he feared in striving for additional results he might meet with reverses, as had Lucullus.
• Genius creates its own laws, makes its own methods, reverses old decisions and triumphs against the whole brood of critics.
• Twenty years of wars and reverses were not to suffice for that.
• The campaigns of 1702 and 1703 presented an alternation of successes and reverses favorable, on the whole, to France.
• I suppose that if a man has ever believed that we English have some sacred and separate right to be athletic, such reverses do appear quite enormous and shocking.
• In so doing she reverses the natural relations, and her heart can never, never be satisfied with what ensues.
• In 1695 the nation was still smarting under reverses in the Low Countries and the repulse of the Brest expedition.
• Even domestic losses, which often affect those who are proof against mere reverses of fortune, made no deep impression on the feelings of this cheerful old monarch.
• He was said to have met for some years past with continual reverses, in the loss of property, in sickness, and in the death of friends.
• In 1836, during the commercial depression, he met with financial reverses which forced him to return to the game of money-getting.
• Whenever the British ventured far from the ports of entry, they encountered reverses.
• This it does under the delusion that the senses can reverse the spiritual facts of Science, whereas Science reverses the testimony of the material senses.
• Surratt, the widowed mother of the last named, formerly a woman of some property in Maryland, but reduced by reverses to keeping a small boarding-house in Washington.
• And the history of them will begin at some distance back, telling of the fortunes in war of the Romans and the Medes, their reverses and their successes.
• Raja Kanali supported a long war with the Hollanders, attended with many reverses of fortune.
• Here it reverses what is most distinctive in modern Western religious thought as far as modern Western religious thought has accepted evolution.
• Encouraged by the recent reverses, during the recess the opponents of administration had been employed in forming and maturing a general plan of attack.
• The war which France had waged in Algeria for a considerable period continued throughout the whole of this year and was marked by several reverses experienced by its forces.
• Two severe reverses sustained by the allies prove that in discipline and skill they were no match for the enemy.
• One of the pioneers of the foreign mission enterprise was Gossner, whose life, at first full of reverses and disappointment, has lately come to a triumphant and brilliant close.
• But it is only the philosopher who forms his opinions before considering the facts, the historian instinctively reverses the order of these phenomena.
• The obstinate resistance of the people and reverses to the arms of France elsewhere had forced them to raise the siege.
• They deplored the reverses which the Rebel cause had suffered, and confessed that the times were out of joint.
• The rumors of his reverses in Wall street did not reach them, and all believed that, in one way or another, their fortunes were united with his.
• In 1897 such a calamity befell them, and although the rich farmers did not suffer materially, the poorer class experienced reverses sufficient to discourage them for life.

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