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Definition

go back to a previous state

Revert or reversion can also have a specialized meaning in the law with regard to property. Archaically, it can refer to physically turning away from something.

Since everything at the shack had reverted back to its original desolation, Mack had begun to wonder if Missy's body might still be in the cave.
William P. Young -- The Shack

If there be no offspring, born or unborn, said share will revert to the estate.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
Andie had reverted to her old cheery self after Amy returned.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
If that is your choice, Longbottom, we revert to the original plan.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"That's it!" cried Clare, pleased to think that she had reverted to the real pronunciation.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
His clothes had reverted to the normal mortal ones we'd bought him in Cairo, but somehow he still looked quite imposing, quite confident.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
By consequence, all political power has reverted to its original source, the people of the nation.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The carefully clipped topiaries that lined the drive had reverted to scraggly bushes, and weeds had claimed all the formal flower beds.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
A hundred cultured boys and girls slipping back to illiteracy, back to the stone age, the veneer sloughing away .... reverting to savagery.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
For months, I kept expecting him to revert to his old ways, and I watched for it, ready to call him on it.
Nicholas Sparks -- Nights in Rodanthe
Forgetting his regulation language, this poor Frenchman had reverted to speaking his own mother tongue to fling out one supreme plea!
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
At Home I reverted to the old Pattyn, the one unlikely to draw much attention to herself.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
O'Donnell, who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, reverts to his soldier days and snaps to attention as a sign of numb respect.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
When it made contact with his skin, he grunted once and then reverted to silence.
Kiera Cass -- The Elite
He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale as the effects of delirium.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
At one time it had for a little while glowed more brilliantly again, but it speedily reverted to its sullen red heat.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
These words, uttered with severity, made Master Olivier's face revert to its insolence.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"I don't know about that," and Tom's countenance darkened, for his memory reverted to his kicking.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
With this object I shall be obliged to retrace some of the steps which I have already taken, and to revert to topics which I have before discussed.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
His mind reverted to the astonishing revelations of the last half-hour.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

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