Definition of "revert" []

• To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief. (verb-intransitive)
• Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property. (verb-intransitive)
• Genetics To undergo reversion. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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• "Both Leeds and Liverpool had games in hand, which had they converted would have seen the title revert to a more traditional mantelpiece."
• "When the evidence was too clearly against Buckley, he would again revert to sexual innuendo, attacks on Myra, and finally Bobby Kennedy."