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 Definitions of revert  [ɪˈvɜrt]  

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Definition of 'revert' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.i.) revert
to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.

2.  revert
to return to the former owner or that person's heirs.

3.  revert
to return to an ancestral type or characteristic.

4.  revert
to go back in thought or discussion:
He kept reverting to his childhood.

5. (n.) revert
a person or thing that reverts.

Etymology:  (1250–1300; (< OF revertir) < L revertere to turn back =re-re - +vertere to turn; cf. verse)

Definition of 'revert' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
go back to a previous state
"We reverted to the old rules"

2. (verb) revert
undergo reversion, as in a mutation


Definition of 'revert' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) revert
one who, or that which, reverts

2. (verb) revert
to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse

3. (verb) revert
to throw back; to reflect; to reverberate

4. (verb) revert
to change back. See Revert, v. i

5. (verb) revert
to return; to come back

6. (verb) revert
to return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him

7. (verb) revert
to return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type

8. (verb) revert
to change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts


Translation of 'revert' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to come or go back (to a previous state, point in a discussion etc).

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: terugkeer Arabic flag Arabic: يُعيد الوَضْع إلى ما كانَ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: връщам се
Brazilian flag Brazilian: voltar / reverter Czech flag Czech: vrátit se German flag German: zurückkommen
Danish flag Danish: vende tilbage til Greek flag Greek: επανέρχομαι Spanish flag Spanish: volver
Estonian flag Estonian: tagasi pöörduma Farsi flag Farsi: رجوع کردن؛ برگشتن Finnish flag Finnish: palautua
French flag French: revenir (à) Hebrew flag Hebrew: לַחֲזוֹר Hindi flag Hindi: फिर लौट आना
Croatian flag Croatian: vratiti se u prvobitno st Hungarian flag Hungarian: visszatér Indonesian flag Indonesian: kembali
Icelandic flag Icelandic: taka aftur upp, snúa sér Italian flag Italian: tornare, ritornare Japanese flag Japanese: もとに戻る
Korean flag Korean: 복귀하다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: (su)grįžti į, pasukti atg Latvian flag Latvian: atgriezties pie iepriekšē
Malay flag Malay: kembali Dutch flag Dutch: terugkeren Norwegian flag Norwegian: komme/vende tilbake til
Polish flag Polish: wrócić (do punktu wyjścia Persian flag Persian: رجوع کردن؛ برگشتن Pashto flag Pashto: بيرته اوښتل، بيرته ګرزيدل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: voltar Romanian flag Romanian: a re­veni la Russian flag Russian: возвращаться
Slovak flag Slovak: vrátiť sa Slovenian flag Slovenian: povrniti se Serbian flag Serbian: vratiti se
Swedish flag Swedish: återgå, återkomma Thai flag Thai: กลับสู่สภาพเดิม; กลับไปกล Turkish flag Turkish: dönmek, dönüş yapmak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 回到(之前的狀態或議題等) Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: повертатися Urdu flag Urdu: واپش آنا یا جانا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: trở lại Chinese flag Chinese: 回复,回到…上

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