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What does revert mean?
Definitions in simple English

revert Verb

— When you revert, you are undoing an action.

revert

— verb go back to a previous state We reverted to the old rules — verb undergo reversion, as in a mutation

Synonyms revert synonyms

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return regress restore refund give back turn back send back retrovert resume render recur payback go back deliver back change relapse come back waste ward off walk over transform to change take up resile replace repel reject re-emerge prevent offcut mill cull leftovers leftover bits and pieces happen again convert come back to life bounce backslide amend alter

Conjugation revert conjugation

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revert · verb

Examples revert examples

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Movie subtitles

She'd quickly revert in appearance to her actual age.
He may be able to conceal his handwriting for an hour, two hours, maybe even longer, but as fatigue sets in, he will revert to his real handwriting.
Within four hours, when the drug has worn itself off he will revert to his former placid self.
Otherwise, the estate would revert to Miriam Webster. his oldest daughter by a former marriage.
All the sweet, prim types revert to the jungle once more.
Then, at the end of their lifespan, my entire estate will revert to Edgar.
Meanwhile, revert to your usual practice of saying and doing nothing.
But emotionally they remain as dangerous children, who may revert to primitive, subhuman conduct at any moment.
The lungs are beginning to revert.
Seems like. the release of these nations, the Egyptians, the Syrians, King Herod, to revert to the Jews, I wonder, is it because, as you say, they identify future with past that they have so many prophets?
The longer the transformation is delayed, the more he'll revert to a baboon's natural behaviour.
Stand by to revert to normal lighting.
Will you revert?
Now to revert to you again, madame.
Think carefully, child. Lest I revert to other means.
My life was finally going to revert to its normal course.
Is it possible for an animal with Clarence's gentle personality to revert to the wild so suddenly, without warning?
Dad, you think Clarence's being with the lions has caused him to revert to the wild?
He's got nothing to revert to, Mike.
It proved my theory. He did revert.
The natives will revert to their old fears and superstitions, and it's better the whole thing were nipped in the bud.
To walk, for example, when they would prefer to revert to more primitive oceanic forms.
And without that water, she will revert back to her true age.
Heartbeat normal. The lungs are beginning to revert.
The doctor explained me that another operation could revert your state and make you fertile again.
They always revert.
Revert to antimatter.
He will revert to antimatter.
As you see, I tried, he talked, and then he began to revert to his primitive state.
But to revert to the manuscript, sir, in my opinion, Lady Florence has overestimated the danger of people being offended at being mentioned in Sir Watkyn's book.
Or are you afraid I'll revert and put my feet back up on the table?
But now, when I need to regenerate, I simply revert to my gelatinous state anywhere in this room.
I have to revert back to my liquid state but I don't want you to watch and gawk at me!
Tell me. what will happen if you can't revert to a liquid?

News and current affairs

In an effort to avoid resolutions or measures that expose their disagreements, the world's great powers have adopted the habit of organizing worldwide debates and conferences that revert to decision-making by consensus.
The European elite needs to revert to the principles that guided the Union's creation, recognizing that our understanding of reality is inherently imperfect, and that perceptions are bound to be biased and institutions flawed.
Eurozone leaders' temptation to revert to earlier, discredited models of European relationships was bearable for a time, but it has now reached the limit of its tolerability.
If Lebanon's political forces and Nasrallah's followers cannot get him to revert to a truce, Israel will bomb more targets, including Nasrallah's offices in south Beirut.
Iraq's last general election, in 2010, brought hope of recovery in the form of a power-sharing agreement among Sunni, Shia, and Kurds, which was supposed to ensure that the country did not revert to dictatorship.
Given that danger, the risk premium will not revert to its previous level in the absence of outside assistance.
How well he recovers will determine whether or not Putin's revolution will remain a democratic one, or whether he will revert to autocracy to pursue his goals.
American tax rates will revert overnight to their Clinton-era levels.
The alternative is to revert to illiberal autocracy.
Or will it, too, succumb and revert to a belief in state controls and protected national economies.
There is no way to know whether the rate of growth of multifactor productivity will remain at its current level or will revert to the pre-2000 pace.
Japanese might revert to angry nationalism.
Rather than moving into the twenty-first century, Russia seems determined to revert to nineteenth-century strategic thinking.
It is conceivable that the swarm of small new member states may revert to the traditional and logical predisposition towards federalism.
But it is not necessary to revert to that policy to make a difference.
Of course, Reagan and Thatcher have always had their critics, some of whom now believe that the world economy will revert to pre-Reagan and pre-Thatcher policies.
When structural barriers to employment have diminished, unemployment benefits should revert to their old norms.
To our surprise, we found that the relative prices of grains, metals, and many other basic goods tended to revert to a central mean tendency over sufficiently long periods.
But if we are to move forward rather than revert to earlier, more dangerous times, the US, in particular, must reassert a constructive role in multilateralism.
At some point, voters will react against a system that amplifies differences and suppresses shared goals, and policy formation will revert to its more effective pragmatic mode.
Rather than reinventing itself, Europe, under the pressure of the crisis and its own internal contradictions, threatens to revert to the national egoism and protectionism of the past.
So will Germany revert to nationalism?
One hopes that the relentless uninformed criticism that his pragmatic policies have elicited does not drive his successor to revert to a risky transformational approach.
Many believe that the current crisis will pass, and that Thailand will revert to its historical harmony among the four groups.
The new administration's stance will thus be critical: Turkey has much to gain by supporting a solution in Cyprus; but it could also revert to old habits and spoil today's unique opportunity.

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