revert
One who, or that which, reverts.
(religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
(Islam) A convert to Islam.
(computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
(rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
To cause to return to a former condition.
To reverse (a change).
To reverse a change made by (a person).
To return to the possession of.
(law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
(biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
To take up again or return to a previous topic.
(rare) To return; to come back.
(Islam) To convert to Islam.
(originally India) To reply (to correspondence etc.).
(mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx^2 + ⋯, 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.
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