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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Word of the Day

15 April 2025

DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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