Word Definition

Revert

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