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Evert

UK/ɪˈvɜːt/ US/iˈvɝt/ rare obsolete
noun (1) verb (1)

noun

1.

United States tennis player who won women''s singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)

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verb

1.

turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward

  • “evert the eyelid”

Origin

From Late Latin ēvertere (“to turn (an item of clothing) inside out”), Latin ēvertere, present active infinitive of ēvertō (“to turn upside down; to overturn; to reverse”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’)) + vertō (“to reverse; to revolve, turn; to turn around”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).

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