revert

Revert is defined as to return to something, someone or a previous way of being.

(verb)

An example of revert is a sober alcoholic going back to drinking again.

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See revert in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

Origin: 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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See revert in American Heritage Dictionary 4

intransitive verb re·vert·ed, re·vert·ing, re·verts
  1. To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
  2. Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
  3. Genetics To undergo reversion.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English reverten

Origin: , from Old French revertir

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *revertīre

Origin: , variant of Latin revertere

Origin: : re-, re-

Origin: + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots

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Related Forms:

  • re·vertˈer noun
  • re·vertˈi·ble adjective
  • re·verˈtive adjective

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