Synonyms of the word invert


INVERTALTER - CHANGE - MODIFY - REVERSE

invert

  • v. (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
  • v. (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in…
  • v. (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
  • v. To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
  • n. (archaic) A homosexual person.
  • n. (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
  • n. The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable…
  • n. (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
  • n. (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
  • n. A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance…
  • n. (biology, informal) invertebrate.
  • adj. (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

reverse

  • adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
  • adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
  • adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
  • adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
  • adj. (botany) Reversed.
  • adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
  • adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
  • n. The opposite of something.
  • n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
  • n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
  • n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
  • n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
  • n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
  • n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
  • n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
  • v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
  • v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
  • v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
  • v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
  • v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
  • v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
  • v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
  • v. To overthrow; to subvert.

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