CHANGE BY REVERSAL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Change to the contrary

Example:

public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern

Synonyms:

change by reversal; reverse; turn

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "change by reversal" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change by reversal"):

alternate; flip; flip-flop; interchange; switch; tack (reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action))

turn the tables; turn the tide (cause a complete reversal of the circumstances)

commutate (reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current)

exchange; switch; switch over (change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence)

correct; rectify; right (make right or correct)

falsify (falsify knowingly)

commute; permute; transpose (change the order or arrangement of)

metamorphose; transfigure; transmogrify (change completely the nature or appearance of)

regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)

desynchronise; desynchronize (cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times)

deconsecrate; desecrate; unhallow (remove the consecration from a person or an object)

undo (cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect)

Sentence frames:

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