The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REVERSE
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More clues leading to the result REVERSE
- Back minister supported by Irish
- Go back on some lines
- Back minister introducing minority language
- Setback about part of work with lines
- Send back touching lines
- Revolutionary’s endless poetry of defeat
- Poem written after sappers’ defeat
- Setback for the other side
- Upset about poetry
- Always succeeded in case of rare defeat
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What does REVERSE mean?
REVERSE noun- The opposite of something.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To return, come back.
- To turn away; to cause to depart.
- To cause to return; to recall.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To place a set of points in the reverse position
- (of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- (of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- Reversed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.