Meanings
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1
verb
to turn a structure outward or inside out, especially an organ, sac, eyelid, or other body part
The animal can evert the scent sac by contracting the surrounding muscles.
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2
verb
formal or archaic: to overturn, reverse, or overthrow something
The ruling threatened to evert the legal settlement established by the earlier charter.
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Etymology
From Latin evertere, 'to overturn or turn out,' formed from e- or ex-, 'out,' + vertere, 'to turn.' Anatomical English narrowed the image to turning a sac or body part outward or inside out.