inversionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ɪnˈvɜː.ʒən/us/ɪnˈvɝː.ʒən/a situation in which something is changed so that it is the opposite of what it was before, or in which something is turned upside down:
Her account of the case was an inversion of the facts (= it said the opposite of what really happened).
specialized medical a situation in which an organ, or part of an organ, is turned inside out
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Opposites
- antithesis
- antonym
- anything
- anything but idiom
- be like chalk and cheese idiom
- chalk
- contrary
- countervailing
- dichotomous
- extreme
- flip side
- inverse
- non-
- opposed
- opposite
- or otherwise idiom
- otherwise
- polarity
- pole
- reverse
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