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revert

verb

= go back, return, come back, resume, lapse, recur, relapse, regress, backslide, take up where you left off • He reverted to smoking heavily.
= return, go back to, be returned to, be once again in the possession of • The property reverts to the freeholder.
Since the concept back is already contained in the re- part of the word revert, it is unnecessary to say that someone reverts back to a particular type of behaviour.

'revert' in Other Languages

British English: revert When people or things revert to a previous state, system, or type of behaviour, they go back to it. VERBThe area was farmland until 1970 but has reverted to woodland since.
Brazilian Portuguese: reverter
Chinese: 恢复 >先前的状态、制度或行为恢复復 >
European Spanish: volver a
French: revenir
German: zurückkehren
Italian: tornare
Japanese: 戻る
Korean: > 되돌아가다본래의 상태로
Portuguese: reverter
Spanish: revertir

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