revert

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Synonyms: revere, evert, revery, reverb, revers, revest, prevert, rever, revet, levert, severt

Antonyms: revere, evert, revery, reverb, revers, revest, prevert, rever, revet, levert, severt

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Noun

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. {{lb|en|religion}} One who reverts to that [[religion]] which one had adhered to before having [[convert]]ed to another.
3. {{lb|en|Islam|ideologically loaded|due to the belief that all people are born Muslim}} A convert to [[Islam]].
4. {{lb|en|computing}} The act of [[reversion]] (of e.g. a [[database]] [[transaction]] or [[source control]] [[repository]]) to an earlier state.
5. The [[skateboard]] [[maneuver]] of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive|now|rare}} To [[turn back]], or [[turn]] to the [[contrary]]; to [[reverse]].
2. To [[throw back]]; to [[reflect]]; to [[reverberate]]. {{rfex|en}}
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[cause]] to [[return]] to a former condition.
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To reverse (a change).
5. {{lb|en|transitive}} To reverse a change made by (a person).
6. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To return to the possession of.
7. {{lb|en|transitive}} To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
8. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
9. {{lb|en|intransitive|biology}} To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an [[ancestral]] type.
10. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
11. {{lb|en||nonstandard|intransitive}} To take up again or return to a previous topic.
12. {{lb|en|intransitive|now|rare}} To return; to [[come back]].

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