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Definition of Revert

Revert

To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

To change back. See Revert, v. i.

To return; to come back.

To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; 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; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

One who, or that which, reverts.

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Revert Quotations

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
Herbert Read

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
Marguerite Young

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.
Mark Zandi

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn