Revert

Quick meaning: Revert is a noun meaning One who, or that which, reverts.

Meaning

One who, or that which, reverts.

More Meanings

1. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
2. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
3. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
4. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
5. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
6. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
7. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.

Example Sentences

Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.

The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.

We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]

Word Forms

• reverts
• reverting
• reverted

Synonyms for revert

Depending on context, synonyms include reconvert, rehabilitate, restitute, restore, undo, reinstate.

Antonyms for revert

Common opposites include convert.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include regress, return, reversion, rollback, backslide, returning.

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