Definition of "invert" []

To turn inside out or upside down: invert an hourglass. (verb-transitive)
To reverse the position, order, or condition of: invert the subject and predicate of a sentence. (verb-transitive)
To subject to inversion. See Synonyms at reverse. (verb-transitive)
To be subjected to inversion. (verb-intransitive)
Something inverted. (noun)

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Use "invert" in a sentence

"While the former is concerned with understanding the mind, the latter is busy worrying about the body; the labels invert the popular understanding of Freudianism but make intuitive humorous sense anyway."
"Breaking sucrose into glucose and fructose is often referred to as inversion, and the resulting mixture is called invert sugar or invert syrup."
"Renounce what you want; do what you do not want to do; pursue what is repugnant; in short, invert the relations of pleasure and pain, and act by your will against their sanctions, so as to seek pain and flee pleasure."

Words like "invert"

alter change converted divert

inversion invert sugar inverted invertibility

inverting inverts modify reorder

revers reverse upset