intransitive verb

1. to go back in action, thought, speech, etc.; return, as to a former practice, opinion, state, or subject
2. Biol. to return to a former or primitive type; show ancestral characteristics normally no longer present in the species
3. Law to go back to a former owner or the heirs of such owner

Etymology: ME reverten < OFr revertir < VL *revertire, for L revertere < re-, back + vertere, to turn: see verse

noun