Home › Words › R › reenversereenversereenverse means to reverse.EtymologyAlteration of renverse (after re-).verbTo reverse.e.g.“Plato saith that it often changeth his countenance, that the heaven, the starres, and the sunne do sometimes re-enverse the motion we perceive in them, changing the east into the west.” — 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).