Revert

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1. Verb

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

2. Verb

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

3. Verb

To change back. See Revert, v. i.

4. Verb

To return; to come back.

5. Verb

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

6. Verb

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

7. Verb

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

8. Noun

One who, or that which, reverts.
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