| Revert 1. (v. t.) To change back to a former condition; to reverse. 2. (v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. 3. (v. t.) To change back. See Revert. 4. (v. i.) To return; to come back. 5. (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him. 6. (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. 7. (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts. 8. (n.) One who, or that which, reverts. Thesaurus Entries back, back up, backslide, cock, come after, come again, come back, come last, come up again, cry back to, echo, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, follow, get behind, go back, go back to, go backwards, go behind, have a relapse, jerk back, keep coming, lag behind, lapse, lapse back, lose ground, pull back, react, reappear, recede, recidivate, recur, recur to, regress, relapse, reoccur, repeat, resound, resume, retreat, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, retrovert, return, return to, reverberate, reverse, revert to, sink back, slide back, slip back, take up again, trail, trail behind, turn, yield again to |