revert

Meanings

Plural: reverts

Verb

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.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

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

Scrabble Score: 9

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

Words With Friends Score: 10

revert is a valid Words With Friends word