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revert definition

re·vert (ri vʉrt′)

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

a person or thing that reverts; esp., one who returns to a previous faith

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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