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.

See revert in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb

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

To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
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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