Meaning

16 senses
  1. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

  2. (transitive)To cause to return to a former condition.

    вернутьvernutʹ

  3. (transitive)To reverse (a change).

  4. (transitive)To reverse a change made by (a person).

  5. (intransitive)To return to the possession of.

    When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.

  6. To return to the possession of.

    (intransitive)Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

  7. (transitive)To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

    Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.

    вернутьvernutʹ

  8. (intransitive)To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

  9. (intransitive)To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

    деградироватьdegradirovatʹ

  10. (intransitive)To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

    Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

  11. (intransitive, nonstandard)To take up again or return to a previous topic.

  12. (intransitive)To convert to Islam.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. This should be reverted back to the original.

    ruНужно вернуть это в исходное состояние.

    deDas sollte in den Originalzustand zurückversetzt werden.

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  2. The situation will soon revert to the way things were before.

    deDie Lage wird bald in den Ursprungszustand zurückkehren.

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  3. Felix went to a psychic to help him revert that curse.

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  4. Tom reverted to type.

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  5. Late-stage dementia sufferers whose first language isn't English often revert back to their native language as their condition worsens.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
to return to a previous subject of discourse or thought:
to cause to return to a former condition:
biology: to return to an earlier or primitive type or state:
to reply:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

reverts, reverting, reverted, reverted
Base formrevert · to revert
3rd person singularreverts
Present participlereverting
Past simplereverted
Past participlereverted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrevert
he, she, itreverts

Past simpleLesson

all personsreverted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave reverted
he, she, ithas reverted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill revert

Synonyms

19 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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