| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| evert |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | e·vert |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -vûrt |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: e·vert·ed, e·vert·ing, e·verts
To turn inside out or outward. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Back-formation from Middle English everted, turned upside down, from Latin  vertus, past participle of vertere, to overturn : -, ex-, ex- + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Appendix I.
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
