reverted; reverting; reverts
1
: to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject)
2
: to return to the proprietor or his or her heirs at the end of a reversion
3
: to return to an ancestral type
reverter
noun
Examples of revert in a Sentence
after the national emergency had passed, the political parties abandoned their shotgun unity and reverted to their partisan squabbling
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In races with few polls, the polling average is reverted back toward the imputed average there based on polls in other districts.
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G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2024
His plan suggests reverting property tax bills to 2021 levels.
—Brittany Carloni and Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled the challenge was made four seconds after the one-minute deadline and reverted Chiles’ score to 13.666, putting her back in fifth place.
—Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
There was a timeline where Musk essentially reverted Twitter to its founding ethos—one that had a naive and simplistic idea of real-time global conversation.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2024
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G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2024
His plan suggests reverting property tax bills to 2021 levels.
—Brittany Carloni and Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled the challenge was made four seconds after the one-minute deadline and reverted Chiles’ score to 13.666, putting her back in fifth place.
—Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
There was a timeline where Musk essentially reverted Twitter to its founding ethos—one that had a naive and simplistic idea of real-time global conversation.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for revert
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“Revert.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revert. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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revert
verb
re·vert
ri-ˈvərt 
1
: to come or go back
reverted to the customs of their ancestors
2
: to experience reversion
Medical Definition
Legal Definition
revert
intransitive verb
re·vert
ri-ˈvərt
1
: to come or go back (as to a former status or state)
if the donee of a general power fails to exercise it…the appointive assets revert to the donor's estate—W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al.
W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al.2
: to return to the grantor or his or her heirs as a reversion
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