Dictionary Entry
reversal
reversal is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Intended to reverse; implying reversal. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
- 2noun
The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
- 3noun
A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.
- 4noun
a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
"an about-face on foreign policy"
- 5noun
a change from one state to the opposite state
"there was a reversal of autonomic function"
- 6noun
the act of reversing the order or place of
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- 7noun
turning in the opposite direction
- 8noun
a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
- 9noun
a decision to reverse an earlier decision
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- 10noun
turning in an opposite direction or position
"the reversal of the image in the lens"
- 11noun
an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
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