These can divide, and these reverse, the state.
Pope.
Custom . . . reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.
Rogers.
6. (Law) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or
annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.
Reverse arms (Mil.), a position of a soldier in which the piece passes
between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45°, and is held as
in the illustration. -- To reverse an engine or a machine, to cause it
to perform its revolutions or action in the opposite direction.
Syn. -- To overturn; overset; invert; overthrow; subvert; repeal;
annul; revoke; undo.
Re*verse", v. i. 1. To return; to revert. [Obs.] Spenser.