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verb move backwards ADV. carefully She carefully reversed the lorry up the narrow driveway. | slowly | in, out PREP. into The car reversed into a hedge. | out of He reversed slowly out of the garage. change sth to the opposite ADV. dramatically, radically | completely, exactly, totally The decline in this industry has now been completely reversed. | almost | partially, partly | simply To solve the puzzle, simply reverse the order of the numbers. | quickly, rapidly | suddenly VERB + REVERSE seek to, try to | fail to, noun opposite ADJ. exact VERB + REVERSE do If you tell children to do something, they will often do the exact reverse. PREP. on the ~ (= on the opposite side) The coin has a date on one side and the emperor's head on the reverse. gear VERB + REVERSE put sth in/into, throw sth into I put the car in reverse. REVERSE + NOUN gear problem ADJ. major, serious VERB + REVERSE experience, have, meet with, suffer Their forces have suffered serious reverses in recent months.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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reverse
nouns
reverse a decision/ruling
• The Supreme Court reversed the decision.
reverse your position
(= change your opinion or attitude )
• He spoke in favor of the bill, reversing his previous position.
reverse a policy
• She is pressing the government to reverse its policy.
reverse a trend
• Immigration has increased sharply and reversing this trend will be extremely difficult.
reverse a decline
• His policies had reversed the decline in the economy.
reverse a process
• We cannot reverse the ageing process.
reverse the effects of something
• Hair conditioner can’t reverse the damaging effects of colouring and perming.
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