revert
[verb]
Synonyms: return, come back, go back, resume

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Contrasted words: advance, progress
Related Words: backslide, lapse, relapse, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, retrograde

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re‧vert /rɪˈvɜːt $ -ɜːrt/ verb
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: revertir, from Latin revertere 'to turn back', from vertere 'to turn']
revert to somebody/something phrasal verb

1. to change back to a situation that existed in the past Synonym : go back to:
The city reverted to its former name of St Petersburg.
After a few weeks, everything reverted to normal.

2. formal to return to an earlier subject of conversation Synonym : go back to:
To revert to the question of exams, I’d like to explain further.

3. law if land or a building reverts to its former owner, it becomes their property again

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