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EVERT
Evert, Chris Evert, Chrissie Evert, Christine Marie Evert
(noun) United States tennis player who won women’s singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)
evert
(verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward; “evert the eyelid”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
evert (third-person singular simple present everts, present participle everting, simple past and past participle everted)
(transitive, often, biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
(transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
(transitive, obsolete, also, figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.
(ambitransitive, obsolete, also, figuratively) To disrupt; to overthrow.
Anagrams
• revet, terve
Source: Wiktionary
E*vert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Everted; p. pr. & vb. n. Everting.] Etym: [L. evertere. See Everse.]
1. To overthrow; to subvert. [R.] Ayliffe.
2. To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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