revert

Plural: reverts

Verb

Verb Forms: reverted, reverting, reverts

To return to a former state, practice, or belief.
go back to a previous state
- "We reverted to the old rules"
undergo reversion, as in a mutation
To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
To cause to return to a former condition.
To reverse (a change).
To reverse a change made by (a person).
To return to the possession of.
To return to the possession of.
Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; 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.
To take up again or return to a previous topic.
To return; to come back.
To convert to Islam.
To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

Noun

One who, or that which, reverts.
One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
A convert to Islam.
The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.

Examples

After trying a new tactic, he decided to revert to his tried-and-true Scrabble openings.
If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
Please revert before Monday.
Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.

Origin / Etymology

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.

Synonyms

regress, retrovert, return, turn back, hark back, revert back

Scrabble Score: 9

revert: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
revert: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
revert: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

revert: valid Words With Friends Word