meaning of revert
1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. To change back. See Revert, v. i.
4. To return; to come back.
5. To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
6. To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
7. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
8. One who, or that which, reverts.
9. undergo reversion, as in a mutation
Related Words
revert | reverted | revertent | reverter | revertible | reverting | revertive |
