Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to reverse-engineer
Participle: reverse-engineered
Gerund: reverse-engineering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | reverse-engineer |
| you | reverse-engineer |
| he;she;it | reverse-engineers |
| we | reverse-engineer |
| you | reverse-engineer |
| they | reverse-engineer |
Perfect
| I | have reverse-engineered |
| you | have reverse-engineered |
| he;she;it | has reverse-engineered |
| we | have reverse-engineered |
| you | have reverse-engineered |
| they | have reverse-engineered |
Past
| I | reverse-engineered |
| you | reverse-engineered |
| he;she;it | reverse-engineered |
| we | reverse-engineered |
| you | reverse-engineered |
| they | reverse-engineered |
Pluperfect
| I | had reverse-engineered |
| you | had reverse-engineered |
| he;she;it | had reverse-engineered |
| we | had reverse-engineered |
| you | had reverse-engineered |
| they | had reverse-engineered |
Future
| I | will reverse-engineer |
| you | will reverse-engineer |
| he;she;it | will reverse-engineer |
| we | will reverse-engineer |
| you | will reverse-engineer |
| they | will reverse-engineer |
Future Perfect
| I | will have reverse-engineered |
| you | will have reverse-engineered |
| he;she;it | will have reverse-engineered |
| we | will have reverse-engineered |
| you | will have reverse-engineered |
| they | will have reverse-engineered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | reverse-engineer |
| you | reverse-engineer |
| he;she;it | reverse-engineer |
| we | reverse-engineer |
| you | reverse-engineer |
| they | reverse-engineer |
Perfect
| I | have reverse-engineered |
| you | have reverse-engineered |
| he;she;it | have reverse-engineered |
| we | have reverse-engineered |
| you | have reverse-engineered |
| they | have reverse-engineered |
Imperfect
| I | reverse-engineered |
| you | reverse-engineered |
| he;she;it | reverse-engineered |
| we | reverse-engineered |
| you | reverse-engineered |
| they | reverse-engineered |
Pluperfect
| I | had reverse-engineered |
| you | had reverse-engineered |
| he;she;it | had reverse-engineered |
| we | had reverse-engineered |
| you | had reverse-engineered |
| they | had reverse-engineered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would reverse-engineer |
| you | would reverse-engineer |
| he;she;it | would reverse-engineer |
| we | would reverse-engineer |
| you | would reverse-engineer |
| they | would reverse-engineer |
Perfect
| I | would have reverse-engineered |
| you | would have reverse-engineered |
| he;she;it | would have reverse-engineered |
| we | would have reverse-engineered |
| you | would have reverse-engineered |
| they | would have reverse-engineered |
Imperative
| you | reverse-engineer |
| we | Let's reverse-engineer |
| you | reverse-engineer |
Verbs conjugated like 'reverse-engineer'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'reverse-engineer'
retro-engineer,
overengineer,
re-engineer,
reengineer,
geoengineer,
microengineer,
reverse-commute,
engineer,
outengineer,
overdetermine,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Back-formation from reverse engineering.
Verbs referencing "reverse-engineer"
Finnish with old forms
reversata.
Sample Sentences
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1997, Roy A. Sorensen, "The Metaphysics of Precision and Scientific Language," Noûs, vol. 31, Supplement: Philosophical Perspectives, 11, p. 363,
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Each creature was viewed as the artifact of a divine blueprint. The role of the biologist was to reverse engineer God's handiwork.
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In theory, there should be no need to reverse-engineer a patented invention to get information about how to make it because the patent specification should inform the relevant technical community of how to make the invention. [2002, P. Samuelson, S. Scotchmer, “The Law and Economics of Reverse Engineering”, in The Yale Law Journal, volume 111, number 7, page 1584:]
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Typically, you complete some design, some implementation, some testing, come up with some good ideas which you implement, and then reverse-engineer your implementation into an improved design. [2003, Per Kroll, Philippe Kruchten, The Rational Unified Process Made Easy, →ISBN:]
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As a matter of preference, always prefer to reverse engineer a roof plan, even when one already exists, but both methods will be discussed here along with their benefits and drawbacks. [2012, Brian L. Smith, 3ds Max Design Architectural Visualization, →ISBN:]
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When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode, scouring hundreds of hours of footage to emphasize the few moments when the exemplary candidate might have slipped up, in an attempt to assemble an artificial version of history in which Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip decision made sense. [2018 December 27, Patrick Radden Keefe, “How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success”, in The New Yorker:]