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1reverence noun 1 : honor or respect felt or shown

2 : a gesture (as a bow or curtsy) of respect

2reverence verb -enced; -enc·ing : to regard or treat with reverence

1reverend adjective 1 : worthy of reverence : REVERED

2 : being a member of the clergy — used as a title

Synonyms

hallowed, venerable—more at VENERABLE

2reverend noun : a member of the clergy

Synonyms

clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, father, minister, preacher, priest—more at CLERGYMAN

rev·er·ent adjective : expressing reverence

— rev·er·ent·ly adverb

rev·er·en·tial adjective : REVERENT

rev·er·ie also rev·ery noun, plural -er·ies [ORIGIN: F rêverie, fr. MF, delirium, fr. resver, rever to wander, be delirious]

1 : DAYDREAM

2 : the condition of being lost in thought

Synonyms

study, trance, woolgathering; also contemplation, meditation, musing; absentmindedness, absorption, abstraction, preoccupation; chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, figment, hallucination, illusion, phantasm, pipe dream, unreality, vision

re·ver·sal noun 1 : an act or process of reversing

2 : a change (as of fortune) often for the worse

Synonyms

lapse, reverse, setback—more at REVERSE

1reverse adjective 1 : opposite to a previous or normal condition

2 : acting or working in a manner opposite the usual

3 : bringing about reverse movement <~ gear>

— re·verse·ly adverb

2reverse verb re·versed; re·vers·ing 1 : to turn upside down or completely about in position or direction

2 : to set aside or change (as a legal decision)

3 : to change to the contrary <~ a policy>

4 : to go or cause to go in the opposite direction

5 : to put (as a car) in reverse

— re·vers·ible adjective

Synonyms

flip, turn; also transpose; exchange, interchange, shift, switch; overturn, upset

3reverse noun 1 : something contrary to something else : OPPOSITE

2 : an act or instance of reversing; especially : a change for the worse

3 : the back side of something

4 : a gear that reverses something

Synonyms

[1] antipode, antithesis, contrary, negative, opposite—more at OPPOSITE

[2] lapse, reversal, setback; also disappointment, frustration, letdown; comedown, decline, descent, down, downfall, fall; turnabout; recession, regression, retrogression, reversion; relapse; breakdown, collapse, crash, meltdown, ruin, undoing

reverse engineer verb : to disassemble or analyze in detail in order to discover concepts involved in manufacture

— reverse engineering noun

re·ver·sion noun 1 : the right of succession or future possession (as to a title or property)

2 : return toward some former or ancestral condition; also : a product of this

— re·ver·sion·ary adjective

re·vert verb 1 : to come or go back <~ed to savagery>

2 : to return to a proprietor or his or her heirs

3 : to return to an ancestral type

1review noun 1 : an act of revising

2 : a formal military inspection

3 : a general survey

4 : an act or the process of reviewing : INSPECTION

5 : a critical evaluation (as of a book)

6 : a magazine devoted to reviews and essays

7 : a renewed study of previously studied material

8 : REVUE

9 : a retrospective view or survey (as of one's life)

Synonyms

[4] audit, check, checkup, examination, inspection, scan, scrutiny, survey—more at INSPECTION

[9] reappraisal, reexamination, retrospection; also recap, recapitulation, rehash

2review verb 1 a : to examine or study again

b : to reexamine judicially

2 : to hold a review of <~ troops>

3 : to write a critical examination of <~ a novel>

4 : to look back over <~ed her accomplishments>

Synonyms

audit, check, examine, inspect, scan, scrutinize, survey—more at INSPECT

readdress, reanalyze, reconceive, reconsider, reexamine, rethink—more at RECONSIDER

re·view·er noun : one that reviews; especially : a writer of critical reviews

re·vile verb re·viled; re·vil·ing : to abuse verbally : rail at

— re·vile·ment noun

— re·vil·er noun

1revise verb re·vised; re·vis·ing 1