Revert

Revert

(1): ( v. i.) To return; to come back.

(2): ( v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

(3): ( v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

(4): ( v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.

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

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

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

(8): ( n.) One who, or that which, reverts.