Revert

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
  • verb-intransitive. Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
  • verb-intransitive. Genetics To undergo reversion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who, or that which, reverts.
  • n. A convert to Islam.
  • n. The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
  • v. To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  • v. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  • v. To cause to return to a former condition.
  • v. To return; to come back.
  • v. To return to the possession of.
  • v. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
  • v. To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
  • v. To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  • v. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
  • v. To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.
  • v. To convert to Islam.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
  • v. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  • v. To change back. See Revert, v. i.
  • verb-intransitive. To return; to come back.
  • verb-intransitive. To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
  • verb-intransitive. To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  • verb-intransitive. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
  • n. One who, or that which, reverts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To turn about or back; reverse the position or direction of.
  • To alter to the contrary; reverse.
  • To cast back; turn to the past.
  • To turn back; face or look backward.
  • To come back to a former place or position; return.
  • To return, as to a former habit, custom, or mode of thought or conduct.
  • In biology, to go back to an earlier, former, or primitive type; reproduce the characteristics of antecedent stages of development; undergo reversion; exhibit atavism.
  • To go back in thought or discourse, as to a former subject of consideration; recur.
  • In law, to return to the donor, or to the former proprietor or his heirs.
  • In chem., to return from a soluble to an insoluble condition: applied to a change which takes place in certain superphosphates. See reversion, 8.
  • n. One who or that which reverts; colloquially, one who is reconverted.
  • n. In music, return; recurrence; antistrophe.
  • n. That which is reverted. Compare introvert, n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. go back to a previous state
  • v. undergo reversion, as in a mutation
  • Verb Form
    reverted    reverting    reverts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mutate   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reflect    reverberate    return   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bert    Curt    Evert    Insert    Kurt    alert    assert    avert    birt    blurt   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts