revert

Meanings

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.

1. To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. To cause to return to a former condition.
4. To reverse (a change).
5. To reverse a change made by (a person).
6. To return to the possession of.
7. Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
8. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
9. To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
10. To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
11. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
12. To take up again or return to a previous topic.

Etymology

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

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