Meaning

5 senses
  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.

    We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

  5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.

Examples

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

    ruНужно вернуть это в исходное состояние. — odexed

    deDas sollte in den Originalzustand zurückversetzt werden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  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.

  4. Tom reverted to type.

  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

2 languages

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

plural: reverts
Singularrevert
Pluralreverts

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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