revert

Speech parts

1. revert - Noun

2. revert - Verb

Meaning

To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

To change back. See Revert, v. i.

To return; to come back.

To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

return turn back decline reverse restore resume relapse regress go back come back backslide retrovert go back to back turn
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Antonyms

bloom convert increase turn-out burgeon develop
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Hypernyms

turn reverse mutate change by reversal

Hyponyms

recover lapse relapse recuperate regress go back

Phrases with the word

revert to revert to non-digital

Derivatives

reverted reverting

Anagrams

Verret

Examples

We reverted to the old rules Source: Internet

All hope seems lost when Trigon takes on the Titans, prompting Raven to revert to her true identity. Source: Internet

After this, Bobby is once again able to revert from ice to flesh. Source: Internet

Against Perpenna, a tactician far inferior to his former commander in chief, Pompey decided to revert to a more aggressive strategy and he scored a decisive victory that effectively ended the war. Source: Internet

Afterwards, the breasts generally revert to their pre-pregnancy size, shape, and volume, yet might show stretch marks. Source: Internet

A person who had consented to baptism under threat of death or serious injury was still regarded as a voluntary convert, and accordingly forbidden to revert to Judaism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

reversis reversive reverso revert back revert to revert to non-digital