revert

Meaning

Noun

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
3. A convert to Islam.
4. The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.

Verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
4. (transitive) To reverse (a change).
5. (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
6. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
7. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
8. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
9. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
10. (intransitive) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
11. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
12. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
13. (archaic, intransitive) To return; to come back.
14. (intransitive) To convert to Islam.
15. (intransitive) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
16. (transitive) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

Synonyms

return

regress

restore

give back

refund

recur

go back

resume

send back

payback

turn back

render

retrovert

change

deliver back

come back

relapse

happen again

resile

come back to life

waste

mill cull

alter

leftover bits and pieces

amend

backslide

bounce

convert

leftovers

offcut

prevent

re-emerge

reject

repel

replace

take up

transform

walk over

ward off

to change

Translations

revertir

επαναστρέφω

retourner

revenir

zurückkehren

dönmek

reverto

regredire

terugkeren

conversion

reprendre

ritornare

tornare

tornare indietro

ارتد

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈvɝt/

Etymology

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.