Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to revert
Participle: reverted
Gerund: reverting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | revert |
| you | revert |
| he;she;it | reverts |
| we | revert |
| you | revert |
| they | revert |
Perfect
| I | have reverted |
| you | have reverted |
| he;she;it | has reverted |
| we | have reverted |
| you | have reverted |
| they | have reverted |
Past
| I | reverted |
| you | reverted |
| he;she;it | reverted |
| we | reverted |
| you | reverted |
| they | reverted |
Pluperfect
| I | had reverted |
| you | had reverted |
| he;she;it | had reverted |
| we | had reverted |
| you | had reverted |
| they | had reverted |
Future
| I | will revert |
| you | will revert |
| he;she;it | will revert |
| we | will revert |
| you | will revert |
| they | will revert |
Future Perfect
| I | will have reverted |
| you | will have reverted |
| he;she;it | will have reverted |
| we | will have reverted |
| you | will have reverted |
| they | will have reverted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | revert |
| you | revert |
| he;she;it | revert |
| we | revert |
| you | revert |
| they | revert |
Perfect
| I | have reverted |
| you | have reverted |
| he;she;it | have reverted |
| we | have reverted |
| you | have reverted |
| they | have reverted |
Imperfect
| I | reverted |
| you | reverted |
| he;she;it | reverted |
| we | reverted |
| you | reverted |
| they | reverted |
Pluperfect
| I | had reverted |
| you | had reverted |
| he;she;it | had reverted |
| we | had reverted |
| you | had reverted |
| they | had reverted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would revert |
| you | would revert |
| he;she;it | would revert |
| we | would revert |
| you | would revert |
| they | would revert |
Perfect
| I | would have reverted |
| you | would have reverted |
| he;she;it | would have reverted |
| we | would have reverted |
| you | would have reverted |
| they | would have reverted |
Imperative
| you | revert |
| we | Let's revert |
| you | revert |
Verbs conjugated like 'revert'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'revert'
evert,
reverb,
revere,
revest,
revet,
advert,
avert,
bever,
brevet,
desert,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to withdraw from a position
- back away, back down, balk, beat a retreat, bug out, crawfish, decline, draw back, fall back, pull out, recede, regrade, retire, retreat, retrograde, shrink, sound a retreat, turn tail, withdraw
- return
- regress, backtrack, reappear, lapse, recur, relapse
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1300, "to come to oneself again," from O.Fr. revertir, from V.L. *revertire, variant of L. revertere "turn back," from re- "back" + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Of position or property from 1447; application to customs and ideas is from 1612.
2. From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
Sample Sentences
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Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene. [c. 1700, Matthew Prior, A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus:]
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The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow. [a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:]
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Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes / Too ſlightly timbred for ſo loud a Winde, / Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe, / And not where I had arm’d them. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], page 275, column 2:]
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This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level. [1998, Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Steven Black, Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0, page 826:]
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You can use page histories to easily revert (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit. [2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 82:]
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When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too. [2008, Kidd, Terry T., Chen, Irene, Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, page 261:]
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When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too. [2008, Kidd, Terry T., Chen, Irene, Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, page 261:]
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She has, in other words, two beliefs: βc (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she cooperated) and βr (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she :Template:.. [2014, Simon DeDeo, “Group minds and the case of Wikipedia”, in Human Computation:]
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When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
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Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
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Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
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If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
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He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam. [1995, Wizārat al-Iʻlām wa-al-Thaqāfah, “Sudanow”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 20:]
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The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam. [1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons:]
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But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life. [2003, Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumuʻah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12:]
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Please revert before Monday.
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First we revert the series expansion (3.6) to give z(#92;zeta) as a series in z. [1990, George A. Baker, Jr.; J. D. Johnson, “Thomas-Fermi Equation of State - The Hot Curve”, in Valdir C. Aguilera-Navarro, editor, Condensed Matter Theories, volume 5, →ISBN, page 5:]
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To express z as a power series of n#92;lambda³, we first expand g#95;#123;3#47;2#125;(z) in z […] We then revert the power series to express z in terms of n#92;lambda³. [2005, Frank Y. Wang, Physics with MAPLE: The Computer Algebra Resource for Mathematical Methods in Physics, →ISBN, pages 518–9:]
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We can revert the series expansion of #92;langlen#92;rangle#92;lambda³#95;T#47;g […] and obtain a series expansion for the fugacity z in terms of #92;langlen#92;rangle#92;lambda³#95;T#47;g, […] [2016, Linda E. Reichl, A Modern Course in Statistical Physics, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 218:]