REVERT
\ɹɪvˈɜːt], \ɹɪvˈɜːt], \ɹ_ɪ_v_ˈɜː_t]\
Definitions of REVERT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
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To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
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To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
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To change back. See Revert, v. i.
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To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
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To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
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To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
By Oddity Software
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To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
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To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
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To change back. See Revert, v. i.
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To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
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To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
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To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To return; recur.
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Revertible.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To turn back; to reverse.
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To return; to fall back; to return to the proprietor, after the determination of a particular estate.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
