change by reversal

1. Change to the contrary (synset 200138328)
   "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
   is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
   subtypes:

   • alternate, flip, flip-flop, interchange, switch, tack - reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
   • turn the tables, turn the tide - cause a complete reversal of the circumstances
   • commutate - reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
   • exchange, switch, switch over - change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
   • correct, rectify, right - make right or correct
   • falsify - falsify knowingly
   • commute, permute, transpose - change the order or arrangement of
   • metamorphose, transfigure, transmogrify - change completely the nature or appearance of
   • regress, retrovert, return, revert, turn back - go back to a previous state
   • desynchronise, desynchronize - cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times
   • deconsecrate, desecrate, unhallow - remove the consecration from a person or an object
   • undo - cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
   same as: reverse, turn

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