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EVERT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)

Synonyms:

Chris Evert; Chrissie Evert; Christine Marie Evert; Evert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

Derivation:

evert (turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward

Example:

evert the eyelid

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "evert" is one way to...):

turn; turn over (cause to move around a center so as to show another side of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

eversion (the act of turning inside out)

eversion (the position of being turned outward)

Evert (United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954))

everting (the act of turning inside out)

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