Word Meaning

revert definition and meaning

v. t. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
v. t. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
v. t. To change back. See Revert, v. i.
v. i. To return; to come back.
v. i. To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
v. i. To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
v. i. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
n. One who, or that which, reverts.

Crossword clues for revert

- Go back
- invert
- Return to former habit
- Return to former ways by stealing wheel centre from Rev Hubert
- Turn back
- Turn back again
- Turn back to