倒置

  1. to invert

Related words

倒挂dào guàlit. to hang upside down倒立dào lìa handstand倒转dào zhuǎnto make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head倾覆qīng fùto capsize击倒jī dǎoto knock down打倒dǎ dǎoto overthrow打翻dǎ fānto overturn掀开xiān kāito lift open

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本末倒置běn mò dào zhìlit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect轻重倒置qīng zhòng dào zhìto invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important)

Found in idioms

头足倒置tóu zú dào zhì轻重倒置qīng zhòng dào zhìput the trivial above the important; reverse the order of importance冠履倒置guān lǚ dào zhì倒置干戈dào zhì gān gē本末倒置běn mò dào zhìturn things inside out (or upside down); take the branch for the root

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