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evert
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e·vert  (-vûrt)
tr.v. e·vert·ed, e·vert·ing, e·verts
To turn inside out or outward.
[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 Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.Evert - United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)
Chris Evert, Chrissie Evert, Christine Marie Evert
Verb1.evert - turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward; "evert the eyelid"
turn over, turn - cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book"
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