revert Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb go back to a previous state
    retrovert; return; turn back; regress.
    • We reverted to the old rules
  2. verb undergo reversion, as in a mutation

WordNet

Re*vert" transitive verb
Etymology
L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Reverted; present participle & verbal noun Reverting
Definitions
  1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
    Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior.
    The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. Thomson.
  2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
Re*vert" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To return; to come back.
    So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. Shak.
  2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
  3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
Re*vert" noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, reverts.
    An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. Fuller.

Webster 1913