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evert

verb
/ɪˈvɜːt/UK/iˈvɝt/US

Etymology

From Late Latin ēvertere (“to turn (an item of clothing) inside out”), Latin ēvertere, present active infinitive of ēvertō (“to turn upside down; to overturn; to reverse”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’)) + vertō (“to reverse; to revolve, turn; to turn around”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).

  1. derived from *wert-✻ — “to rotate, turn”
  2. derived from ēvertere
  3. derived from ēvertere — “to turn (an item of clothing) inside out”

Definitions

  1. To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.

    • But if the conjunctiva be not diseased or very firmly united to the tumour, we had better operate without everting the eyelid, and this is possible without leaving an observable scar on the eyelid.
    • One of the chief causes of flat foot is the natural defect of improper alignment of the leg and the foot, with the result that both muscle action and gravity act to evert and depress the foot.

  2. To move (someone or something) out of the way.

  3. To turn upside down

    To turn upside down; to overturn.

    • Hence it is, That if no Privilege ſhall be alledg'd or pleaded, the Court may proceed againſt the Perſon; and ſuch a Proceſs is valid, becauſe the Juriſdiction of the Judge is not yet everted and overthrown.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To disrupt

      To disrupt; to overthrow.

      • [O]verturning all the Fundamental Conſtitutions of the Government, perverting, inverting, everting all Laws, Liberties, all Priviledges of Church and State, [...]

    2. A surname.

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Derived

uneverted

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA