invert

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Synonyms: inert, invest, insert, invect, invent, inver

Antonyms: inert, invest, insert, invect, invent, inver

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Verb

To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of itself.
- to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
To turn (the foot) inwards.

An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
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A stamp accidentally printed upside-down.

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