v. t. | 1. | To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. | |||
2. | To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. | ||||
3. | (Chem.) To change back. See Revert,
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v. i. | 1. | To return; to come back. | |||
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; | ||||
n. | 1. | One who, or that which, reverts. |
Verb | 1. | revert - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" |
2. | revert - undergo reversion, as in a mutation |