Revert

Definition: Revert

Revert

Verb

1. Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "revert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Revert

Attention

Revert to; watch; (expect), (take care of); hearken to, listen to; prick up the ears; have the eyes open, keep the eyes open; come to the point.

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Repetition

Recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse; renew; (restore).

Restitution

Revest, revert.

Reversion

Verb: revert, turn back, regress; relapse; recoil; retreat; restore; undo, unmake; turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale.

Crosswords: Revert

Stomp that pickle revert! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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Books

• Youth Leaving The Church? (How To Revert This Trend) (reference)

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Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be resettled, their land to revert to cattle range.Credit: Library of Congress.

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And if the legislative power be at first given by the majority to one or more persons only for their lives, or any limited time, and then the supreme power to revert to them again; when it is so reverted, the community may dispose of it again anew into what hands they please, and so constitute a new form of government: for the form of government depending upon the placing the supreme power, which is the legislative, it being impossible to conceive that an inferior power should prescribe to a superior, or any but the supreme make laws, according as the power of making laws is placed, such is the form of the common-wealth. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Health

Once the cells in the lining of the esophagus have turned into columnar cells, they will not revert back to normal. (references)

Early results indicate that cigarette smoking may be more harmful to women than to men. Furthermore, smoking cessation results in greater weight gain in women than in men, and to avoid weight gain women are less likely to quit smoking and more likely to revert to their smoking habit. (references)

Business

This output of the Argentine economic system should revert during 2000. Given the same stable economic conditions as before 1999, the number of Argentine tourists traveling to the U.S. should continue to increase over the following 3-4 years. (references)

The Brazilian devaluation crisis last January and the presidential elections in October 1999 had taken the local economy growth virtually to a stop. This output of the Argentine economic system should revert as from early 2000. Given the same stable economic conditions as before 1999, the number of Argentine tourists traveling to the U.S. should continue to increase over the following 3-4 years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bosnia and Herzegovina

His successor, Frano Ljubic, has allowed activities in West Mostar University to revert to their previous Croat nationalist orientation. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

Once elections have been held and a new government and Parliament are in place, the president's powers and position revert to their largely ceremonial role. (references)

Costa Rica

Merchandise imports grew slightly, which together with the decline in exports caused the trade balance to revert to a deficit after achieving the first surplus in decades in 1999. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

Title for the Manah plant will revert to the government after 20 years. (references)

KUWAIT

Unions can be dissolved by court ruling or Amiri decree, although this has never happened; if it did, union assets would revert to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor. (references)

THAILAND

The VAT rate was raised from 7 to 10 percent in 1997, but lowered temporarily back to 7 percent in March 1999 to stimulate consumption; the rate is scheduled to revert to 10 percent on September 30, 2002. Exemptions for low revenue businesses were expanded in March 1999. Exporters are "zero rated" under the VAT system, but must file returns and apply for rebates. (references)

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Expressions using "revert": revert to ♦ revert to a question ♦ revert to wicked ways ♦ To revert a series. Additional references.

Albanian

rikthehem (recall, recur, regain). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عاد الملك إلى المالك, ‏عاد (come back, get back, pass back, regain, return, roll in, step in, turn back), ‏أعاد (bring round, carry back, get back, give back, go over, iterate, keep, push out, put back, reestablish, remit, repay, repeat, resit, restart, restore, return, send back, take back, throw back), ‏رجع الي صاحبه, ‏رجع (assign, back, come back, cut back, get back, give back, go back, pass back, rebound, reconsider, reestablish, reinstate, render, report back, resound, retreat, return, reverse, send back, snap back, step back, turn, turn back, turn in). (various references)

Bulgarian 

регресирам (regress, retrograde), връщам се (come back, drive back, flow back, get back, go back, recur, regurgitate, turn back), обръщам (bring about, cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist, upset). (various references)

Chinese 

恢复 (recover, recovered, recovering, recuperate, Recuperated, Recuperating, recuperation, Restoration, restore, Re-store, restored, Restoring, Reverted, reverting), 歸還 (return). (various references)

Czech

vrátit se do pùvodního stavu, přejít zpìt. (various references)

Danish

alle ventiler,der anvendes paa undersoeiske boretoppe(mud-cross tilbagestroemningsventiler,juletraesventiler)betjenes hydraulisk,og de fleste er af typen Fail Safe Closed,dvs.at de forbliver lukkede eller selv lukker i tilfaelde af brud paa det hydrauli (all the valves used at subsea wellheads(mud cross outlets), and mostly of the fail safe closed type, blowout preventers, Christmas tree valves etc.)are hydraulically controlled, or revert to, that is to say they remain in, the closed position in the event of failure of the remotely controlled hydraulic circuit). (various references)

Dutch

alle afsluiters welke op onderzeese putmonden gebruikt worden(verbindingsstuk van de spoelingstoevoer,veiligheidsafsluiters,spuitkruis,enz.),worden hydraulisch bediend en de meeste zijn van het Fail Safe Closed-type,d.w.z.dat zij gesloten blijven of dic (all the valves used at subsea wellheads(mud cross outlets), and mostly of the fail safe closed type, blowout preventers, Christmas tree valves etc.)are hydraulically controlled, or revert to, that is to say they remain in, the closed position in the event of failure of the remotely controlled hydraulic circuit). (various references)

Farsi 

اعاده دادن (Remand, Restore), رجوع کردن , برگشتن (Backslide, Comeback, Rebound, Recrudesce, Retroflex, Return, Sheer, Topple, Untread), برگشت (Back, Backstroke, Lapse, Refluence, Regress, Regression, Relapse, Repercussion, Retrogress, Return, Reversal, Veer). (various references)

Finnish

palata (come back, get back, recur, re-enter, return). (various references)

French

revenir (recur, return). (various references)

German

zurückkehren (come back, go back, put back, return, to return, to revert). (various references)

Greek 

επαναστρέφω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשוב (come back, go back, repeat, repent, return), לחזור (come again, come back, get back, go back, return). (various references)

Hungarian

visszaszáll (to recoil), visszaháramlik (to rebound). (various references)

Indonesian

kembali ke. (various references)

Italian

ritornare (become again, come back, give back, go, go back, recur, report back, retrace, retrograde, return, switch back, turn round). (various references)

Korean 

복귀하십시요. (various references)

Manx

goll er ash (ascend, ascend genealogy, draw back, go back, regress, regression, retrospective, return, reversal, reversion). (various references)

Pig Latin

evertray

Portuguese

reverter (recoil, redound, return, reverse), retroceder (fall back on, flinch, recede, regress, retreat, retrograde, retrogress, run back, set back, shrink, subside), regressar (come back, go back, go back on, put back, regress, return), referir novamente a, voltar de novo. (various references)

Romanian

reveni (call again, come, come again, devolve to smb., devolve upon smb., get back, go back, reappear, recede, recur, relapse, repass, retract, return), inversa (invert, reverse), întoarce (crank, geld, put about, repay, retaliate, retort, reverse, set, shift, spade, turn). (various references)

Russian 

повернуть назад (turn back). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratiti se (come back, drive back, get back, go back, move back, recur, relapse, return). (various references)

Spanish

revertir (return, throw back). (various references)

Swedish

återgå (be cancelled, go back, lapse, regress). (various references)

Turkish

yeniden dönmek, tekrar değinmek, ilkel haline dönmek, eski haline dönmek (come back), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), çevirmek (assemble, avert, bowl, change to, commute, convert, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, roll, roll over, screw, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone). (various references)

Ukranian 

звертатися знову, повертатися (backtrack, bear, come again, drive back, fall back upon, retrace, return, turn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người trở lại với niềm tin ban đầu. (various references)

reverto. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "revert": revertant, revertants, reverted, reverter, reverters, revertible, reverting, reverts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Revert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brevert, evret, Gevaert, neverth, pevert, prevert, Raverat, Rayvern, Reberty, reever, revar, revear, revent, rever, reverst, reverte, revery, Reveur, revit, revitt, revort, revre, Reyero, ruvert, Treveri. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: evert, revet.

-2 letters: ever, rete, tree, veer, vert.

-3 letters: ere, err, eve, ree, ret, rev, tee, vee, vet.

-4 letters: er, et, re.

+1 letter: evertor, pervert, reverts, riveter.

+2 letters: diverter, evertors, inverter, overpert, overrate, overtire, overture, perverts, restrive, restrove, retrieve, reverent, reverted, reverter, revolter, riveters, taverner, tirrivee, traveler, traverse, trouvere, venturer, verditer, vertebra.

+3 letters: converter, coverture, diverters, extravert, extrovert, feverwort, harvester, inverters, overalert, overeater, overexert, overrated, overrates, overreact, oversteer, overstrew, overthrew, overtired, overtires, overtrade, overtreat, overtured, overtures, overwater, overwrite, overwrote, perverted, perverter, pretravel, preventer, privateer, reconvert, reservist, restriven, restrives, retrieval, retrieved, retriever, retrieves, revelator, revertant, reverters, reverting, revolters, subverter, taverners, tirrivees, travelers, traveller, traversed, traverser, traverses, trouveres, venerator, venturers, veratrine, verditers, vertebrae, vertebral, vertebras.

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