reverse

01. I didn't realize the car was in [reverse], and I accidentally backed into the wall.

02. Korea's strong economic growth this past year has been a welcome [reversal] of the downward trend of the past few years.

03. In sentences using the passive voice, the normal word order is [reversed], and the sentence starts with the object instead of the subject.

04. The seasons are [reversed] in the southern half of the Earth.

05. If you try to get someone to do something by forcing them, it generally has the [reverse] effect, and actually makes it less likely that they will do what you want.

06. Someone told me that if you play that record in [reverse], you can hear a secret message.

07. There is a Japanese proverb which notes that the [reverse] side also has a [reverse] side.

08. G. C. Lichtenberg once remarked, "God created man in His own image, says the Bible - philosophers [reverse] the process; they create God in theirs."

09. The politician completely [reversed] his stance on the tax once he was elected to office.

10. Medical science alone cannot [reverse] years of poor lifestyle choices.

11. While the lung damage that smoking causes is not [reversible], quitting smoking prevents more lung damage from occurring.

12. Environmental groups in Honduras are fighting to [reverse] the damage done to forests, plants and animals in that country.

13. If yaks, the beast of burden in the Himalayas, travel below 7,000 feet, they get [reverse] altitude sickness, and may actually die.

14. We need to devise a new advertising strategy to [reverse] our downward trend in sales.

15. After two years following [reversion] to China, the economy of Macau remains one of the most open in the world.

16. Her decision to leave her job is [irreversible] now. She just went up to the boss and told him off.

17. If the breathing process is interrupted, humans generally suffer [irreversible] brain damage after about three or four minutes without air.