All 3 Uses of
revert
in
1984 by Orwell
- Parsons did, indeed, invariably revert to shorts when a community hike or any other physical activity gave him an excuse for doing so.†
p. 56..0 *
- Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern.†
p. 71..3
- The heat and the manual work had even given him a pretext for reverting to shorts and an open shirt in the evenings.†
p. 149..0
Definition:
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(revert as in: revert to childish ways) go back to a previous state