REVERSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reversed mean? 

• REVERSED (adjective)
  The adjective REVERSED has 2 senses:

1. turned inside out and resewn

2. turned about in order or relation

  Familiarity information: REVERSED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turned inside out and resewn

Context example:

the reversed collar looked as good as new

Similar:

turned (moved around an axis or center)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Turned about in order or relation

Synonyms:

converse; reversed; transposed

Context example:

transposed letters

Similar:

backward (directed or facing toward the back or rear)

 Context examples 

As for myself, I am sure I only wish our situations were reversed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A structural change in genomic DNA where the 5' to 3' order of a nucleotide sequence is completely reversed to the 3' to 5' order relative to its adjacent sequences.

(Inversion Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

The team found that the stem cell transplant reversed the disease in 26 of 30 patients (87%).

(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)

Some of the problems brought on by these conditions can be managed or reversed.

(Mild Cognitive Impairment, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

These alterations returned to near baseline during the following month of neutral temperature, and then were completely reversed during the final month of warm exposure.

(Cool temperature alters human fat and metabolism, NIH)

Any type of genetic recombination involving rearrangement of segments of DNA within a single chromosome, such that a segment of the chromosome is reversed from the original orientation.

(Chromosomal Inversion Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The mechanism of action of isoxsuprine hydrochloride is controversial because this drug has beta-adrenergic agonist activities that are not reversed by beta-adrenergic blockers.

(Isoxsuprine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

In the lab, A1AT reversed the damaging inflammation seen in tissues that lacked SPINK7, suggesting that further investigation is warranted to determine if this therapeutic may also benefit people with EoE.

(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)

Over millennia, the field weakened, partially shifted, stabilized again, then finally reversed to the orientation we know today.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)

But those problems were reversed when the mice were given the experimental drug.

(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)