{
    "term": "reverse",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "reverse",
            "heSheIt": "reverses"
        },
        "pastSimple": "reversed",
        "pastParticiple": "reversed",
        "ingForm": "reversing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to change something completely so that it is the opposite of what it was before",
            "sensetop": "reverse something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Falling birth rates may **reverse the trend** towards early retirement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to reverse a procedure/process"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has failed to reverse the economic decline."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is sometimes possible to arrest or reverse the disease."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["dramatically", "completely", "exactly"],
                "verb + reverse": ["seek to", "try to", "fail to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to change a previous decision, law, etc. to the opposite one",
            "sensetop": "reverse something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The Court of Appeal **reversed the decision**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The policy is likely to be reversed if there is a change of government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to reverse a judgement"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "revoke",
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to turn something the opposite way around or change the order of something around",
            "sensetop": "reverse something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Writing is reversed in a mirror."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You should reverse the order of these pages."
                },
                {
                    "text": "To solve the puzzle, simply reverse the order of the numbers."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["dramatically", "completely", "exactly"],
                "verb + reverse": ["seek to", "try to", "fail to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to exchange the positions or functions of two things",
            "sensetop": "reverse something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It felt as if we had reversed our roles of parent and child."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She used to work for me, but our situations are now reversed."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to admit you were wrong or to stop having a particular position in an argument",
            "sensetop": "reverse yourself (on something)",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He has reversed himself on a dozen issues."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "when a vehicle or its driver reverses or the driver reverses a vehicle, the vehicle goes backwards",
            "sensetop": "reverse something",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He reversed around the corner."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She reversed into a parking space."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Caution! This truck is reversing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Now reverse the car.",
                    "contextForm": "reverse something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He reversed slowly out of the garage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She carefully reversed the lorry up the narrow driveway."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The car reversed into a hedge."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["slowly", "in", "out"],
                "preposition": ["into", "out of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "to make a phone call that will be paid for by the person you are calling, not by you",
            "sensetop": "reverse (the) charges",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I want to reverse the charges, please."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːs/",
                "audio": "re/reverse/reverse__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːsɪz/",
                "audio": "re/reverse/reverses__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːst/",
                "audio": "re/reverse/reversed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/reverse/reversing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːrs/",
                "audio": "re/reverse/reverse__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːrsɪz/",
                "audio": "re/reverse/reverses__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːrst/",
                "audio": "re/reverse/reversed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvɜːrsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/reverse/reversing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French revers, reverse (nouns), reverser (verb), from Latin reversus ‘turned back’, past participle of revertere, from re- ‘back’ + vertere ‘to turn’."
}