Read full poem →I’h* Lines distinguished bv inverted Commas are omitted lA
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Dictionary Entry
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
In a Sentence
“to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. invertedcommas invertedimage invertedu invertedpyramid invertedposition inverted
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Poetry examples for “inverted”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The wrong is made and measured by
The right’s inverted dignity.
Change love to shame, as love is high
Read full poem →Inverted in the tide
Stand the gray rocks, and trembling shadows throw,
Read full poem →I hear the prayer, with words that scorch
Like sparks from an inverted torch,
I hear the sermon upon sin,
Read full poem →had begun to grow out of his hatred of God, or had become less
insistent upon it. This poem is still obsessedly inverted (II, iSiff.,
which Miss Tuve tries in vain to explain away), but its satire, such as
Read full poem →pause (as vii. 95); or at the end of a line (i. 245, 257); or when a
foot is inverted (v. 133); or when as object it precedes its verb (v.
612; vii. 747), or as subject follows it (ix. 1109; x. 4). But as we
Read full poem →inarticulate voice by Master ---- at the opening of the next
new theatre. [Stolen parts marked with the inverted commas of
quotation--thus "----".]
Read full poem →Oh winter, ruler of th' inverted year,
Thy scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd,