Clues for the word "REVERSE"
We've had 76 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 129 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 27, 2025.
Definition of reverse
- a. - Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
- a. - Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- a. - Reversed; as, a reverse shell.
- a. - That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.
- a. - That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite.
- a. - The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse.
- a. - The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse.
- a. - A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- a. - A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- a. - To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.
- a. - To cause to return; to recall.
- a. - To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- a. - To turn upside down; to invert.
- a. - Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.
- a. - To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.
- v. i. - To return; to revert.
- v. i. - To become or be reversed.
Referring Clues
- Left-handed, in a way
- Kind of twist
- What a car may be put into
- Undo
- Football play
- A motorist may drive in it
- Coin part
- Gear used when parallel parking
- Flip
- Transpose
- Way to go back
- Parallel-parking gear
- Park's neighbor
- Turn around
- PRNDL pick
- Gear position
- Kind of discrimination
- Gearbox option
- One begins parallel parking in it
- Transmission setting
- Setback
- Gearshift setting
- Overturn
- Car gear
- Flip side
- R in a car
- One of P-R-N-D-L
- Football misdirection
- Car gear for backing up
- Go back on
- Park neighbor, often
- Turn back
- Turnaround
- Go backwards
- Back-up gear
- Do a u-turn
- What the numbers 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 are in
- Opposite
- Verso
- Go backward
- Setback for the other side
- Drive backwards
- Turn back to front
- Back
- Move backwards
- One side of a coin
- Tails (of a coin)
- Minister's language is spin
- Vicar takes tongue back
- Misfortune for the other side
- One side of the coin causes difficulty
- Go back
- Back (of a coin or medal)
- Misfortune makes clergyman resort to Gaelic
- Side of a U.S. coin that expresses its value in words
- Back-to-front
- Defeat - or quite the opposite
- Christian teaching takes part of the Bible back
- The opposite of defeat
- Take back the car, but not on motorway
- Poem written after sappers' defeat
- Turn round behind the Queen's Head
- Change back
- Turn inside out
- Clergyman gets tongue back
- Backward
- Turn
- Take back "misfortune"
- Invert
- A setback for one who reveres revolution?
- An adversity? Quite otherwise
- Revoke
- Go back?; Just the opposite!
- Certain auto gear ... as suggested by the circled letters
- Again, rhyme with "defeat"
- See 62-Across
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 18, 2025
- New York Times - September 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 19, 2024
- Daily American - August 12, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - June 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 19, 2024
- Daily American - March 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 17, 2023
- Daily American - September 30, 2023
- Daily American - August 22, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 30, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 22, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 21, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 16, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 25, 2023
- Daily American - May 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 13, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - April 06, 2023
- Mirror Daily - January 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 05, 2022
- Mirror Daily - October 02, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - August 14, 2022
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