evert

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February 26, 2006 at 4: 28 pm evert-extra. dunno why I typed that.

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  1. transitive verb To turn inside out or outward.

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  • An instruction from her augs caused the bag to open and evert, converting itself into a tiered display of diagnostic and surgical equipment, a small drugs manufactory, and various vials and chainglass tubes containing an esoteric selection of some quite alien oddities. —  Asimov'sSF,June2007
  • At the evert dulcimer Festival in Mi when i was 17 9. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Phil Mickelson shot 5 under during his last seven holes and finished with a 68 to evert missing the cut.
  • Anyway, Mark is well qualified for the task and is currently at number four in his series, quite honestly im bored enough watching the zombie language that is irish lumbering around adding "tuk" to evert modern english word that they can find. —  Slugger O'Toole
  • But then I started hearing rumors that a deal was actually in the works to actually do this, to evert to the old closed-list law just in order to get the elections done by the end of the year. —  Abu Aardvark
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Back-formation from Middle English everted, turned upside down, from Latin ēvertus, past participle of ēvertere, to overturn : ē-, ex-, ex- + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin evertere, evortere, turn out, turn over, overthrow, from e, out, + vertere, vortere, turn: see verse, vertex, etc., and cf. avert, advert, convert, invert, pervert, revert, subvert.
 

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