Evert

Quick meaning: Evert is a verb meaning (transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.

Meaning

(transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
2. (transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.
3. (ambitransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To disrupt; to overthrow.

Example Sentences

In addition to functioning as a dorsiflexor of the foot, the extensor digitorum longus also everts the foot and extends the toes.

The older writers, like ourselves, were of course fascinated by the spectacle of a tiny fungus everting its inner peridium with lightning-like rapidity and casting away its ball of spores.

One of the chief causes of flat foot is the natural defect of improper alignment of the leg and the foot, with the result that both muscle action and gravity act to evert and depress the foot.

But if the conjunctiva be not diseased or very firmly united to the tumour, we had better operate without everting the eyelid, and this is possible without leaving an observable scar on the eyelid.

Word Forms

• everts
• everting
• everted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eversion, inversion, evaginate, reverse, evertuate, unturn.

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