Crossword-Solution: REVERSAL 8 letters, 91 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Reversal a. Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
Reversal n. The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an
opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the
reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
Reversal n. A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment,
which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal
of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered
void.

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REVERSAL anagram RAVELERS, SLAVERER

We have 91 clues for the answer “REVERSAL”

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restoration to initial state 1 answer
About turn 1 answer
Appeal result, at times 1 answer
Change for the worse 1 answer
Change for the worse, e.g. 1 answer
Change of mind or direction. 1 answer
Complete change of fortune 1 answer
Fortune's failure 1 answer
Legal change. 1 answer
Change in direction or outcome 1 answer
change of decision or direction often to the opposite 1 answer
Unfavorable change of fortune 1 answer
Turning the tide 1 answer
U turn 1 answer
A set-back. 2 answers
Change of Fortune? 3 answers
U-turn 3 answers
turnabout 3 answers
Direct opposite 5 answers
A CHANGE FOR THE WORSE 10 answers
A REACTION TO A CRISIS OR SETBACK OR FRUSTRATION 10 answers
COMPLETE CHANGE OF MIND 10 answers
CHANGE of mind 10 answers
Flip-flop 10 answers
BUSINESS SETBACK 10 answers
A SERIOUS OR DEVASTATING SETBACK 10 answers
AN ABOUT-FACE ON FOREIGN POLICY 11 answers
A CHANGE FROM ONE STATE TO THE OPPOSITE STATE 11 answers
inversion 12 answers
CHANGE of direction 14 answers
Change direction 17 answers
recidivism 20 answers
slipping back 22 answers
Throwback 24 answers
recurrence 28 answers
tergiversation 32 answers
atavism 34 answers
apostasy 37 answers
Backsliding 39 answers
Defection 39 answers
Backlash 44 answers
imparity 46 answers
antilogy 46 answers
falseness 47 answers
Demotion 47 answers
disinheritance 48 answers
voiding 48 answers
revoking 48 answers
retroaction 48 answers
invalidation 48 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with REVERSAL (5)

This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience, seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment; and I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my double existence.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
Citing Theodore Brunner, Gregory Crane, Elli MYLONAS, and Avra MICHELSON, DALY argued that this reversal in his style of work, made possible by the new technology, would perhaps have resulted in better, more productive research.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Johnson, was a Southerner led most civil rights supporters to feel that there would be a reversal of federal policies on the racial question.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
The first of these -- they are all in the larger forms of art -- is the dramatic sonnet, by which I do not mean merely a sonnet in dialogue or advancing by simple contrast; but one in which there may be these things, but also there is a tragic reversal or its equivalent.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1995
The quick increase of suns at the end of spring sometimes overtakes birds in their nesting and effects a reversal of the ordinary manner of incubation.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin 2008

Quotes with REVERSAL (3)

…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the “subject” (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Parsifal, thereby becoming “himself”; and the deeper the wound, at the body’s center (at the “heart”), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy (“The wound…is of a frightful intimacy”). Such is love’s wound: a radical chasm (at the “roots” of being), wh…
Roland Barthes A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap o…
Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love
The ambivalent strategy involves clinging to the care-giver, often with excessive submissiveness, or adopting a role-reversal in which the care-giver is cared for rather than vice versa. Here feelings of anger at the rejection are most conspicuously subjected to defensive exclusion. Although these strategies have the function of maintaining attachment in the face of difficulties, a price has to be paid. The attachment patterns so established are clearly restricted and, if rep…
Jeremy Holmes John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
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