reverts

[re·vert]

While revert means to return to something earlier or to go back, it's often used wrongly in combination. If you're buying the older version of the game, you might say you're "reverting back," which is like saying "go back back."

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

Verb
undergo reversion, as in a mutation

Verb
go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"

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

v. t.
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

v. t.
To change back. See Revert, v. i.

v. i.
To return; to come back.

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

v. i.
To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

v. i.
To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

n.
One who, or that which, reverts.

Revert

Re*vert" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverting.] [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.] 1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

Till happy chance revert the cruel scence.

The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow.

2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. 3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

Revert

Re*vert", v. i. 1. To return; to come back.

So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again.

2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him. 3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some pre'89xistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. 4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

Revert

Re*vert", n. One who, or that which, reverts.

An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith.

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

To return; to come back.

One who, or that which, reverts.

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Usage Examples

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

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Other Usage Examples

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.