- Backward - Regressive - Returning to an inferior state - Reverse - Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the
succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. - Tending or moving backward; having a backward course;
contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive. - Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a
retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
- Overturn - push inward - Reverse - Turn inward - To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in
a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the
order of words, rules of justice, etc. - To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a
chord, or parts which compose harmony. - To divert; to convert to a wrong use.