revert

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.

1. This should be reverted back to the original.

   ruНужно вернуть это в исходное состояние. — odexed

   deDas sollte in den Originalzustand zurückversetzt werden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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

   deDie Lage wird bald in den Ursprungszustand zurückkehren. — Yorwba

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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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