Revert

[rɪ'vɜːt] or [rɪ'vɝt]

Definition

(verb.) go back to a previous state; 'We reverted to the old rules'.

(verb.) undergo reversion, as in a mutation.

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Definition

(v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

(v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

(v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.

(v. i.) To return; to come back.

(v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

(v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

(v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

(n.) One who, or that which, reverts.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Return, recur, come back, turn back.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Return, refer, accrue, reaccrue, recur

ANT:Depart, escheat, ignore, drop, dismiss, discard

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Definition

v.t. to turn or drive back: to reverse.—v.i. to return: to fall back: to refer back: to return to the original owner or his heirs.—adjs. Rēver′tant (her.) flexed bent twice at a sharp angle; Rēver′ted reversed; Rēver′tible that may revert or be reverted; Rēver′tive tending to revert: changing: turning to the contrary.—adv. Rēver′tively by way of reversion.

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