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How to pronounce revert in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms regress, retrovert, return, turn back
Type of change by reversal, reverse, turn
Has types go back, lapse, recidivate, recover, recuperate, regress, relapse, resile, retrogress, fall back
Derivation reversion, reversive, reverting


We reverted to the old rules.
Type Words
Type of mutate

Examples of revert

revert
That is largely because profits and high relative to trend and will mean revert.
From the economist.com
If it's raining, the newlyweds will revert to the Glass Coach, which has a roof.
From the cnn.com
The worst case scenario is you'll have to revert back to the way things are now.
From the marcandangel.com
I'd say Geno, when Jarrett Brown is healthy, will revert back to being a backup.
From the post-gazette.com
It became a toll road in 1864 and didn't revert to free status again until 1911.
From the sacbee.com
The City Council also agreed to revert to Stage 1 rules once Falls Lake is full.
From the newsobserver.com
How long before U.S. corporate profits, now at historical highs, revert to mean?
From the forbes.com
We already have techniques to revert and differentiate a sperm cell into an egg.
From the scienceblogs.com
Eligible homes are typically leveled and the property must revert to open space.
From the timesunion.com
More examples
  • Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
  • Undergo reversion, as in a mutation
  • (reverting) backsliding: a failure to maintain a higher state
  • (reverting) returning: tending to return to an earlier state
  • (reversion) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
  • (reversion) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
  • (Reversion (genetics)) Mutations are changes in a genomic sequence: the DNA sequence of a cell's genome or the DNA or RNA sequence of a virus. Mutations are caused by radiation, viruses, transposons and mutagenic chemicals, as well as errors that occur during meiosis or DNA replication. ...
  • (Reversion (software development)) In software development (and by extension in content editing environments, especially wikis, that make use of the software development process of revision control), reversion or reverting is the abandonment of one or more recent changes in favor of a return to ...
  • One who, or that which, reverts; A convert to Islam; The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state; To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse; To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate; to get back; To change back; To return; to come ...