revert
/ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t/ verb C2- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
- To reverse (a change).
- To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To return to the possession of. · When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
- Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner. · Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
He/she/it reverts · Past reverted · Past participle reverted · -ing form reverting
Verb forms
- Base form
- revert
- He/she/it
- reverts
- Past
- reverted
- Past participle
- reverted
- -ing form
- reverting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was not till after dinner that Holmes reverted to the subject.
All was useless, the treasure disappeared, and had again reverted to the genii from whom for a moment he had hoped to carry it off.
After many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizabeth could not help reverting once more to the first, and saying,--
“No, count,” replied Monte Cristo taking the hand held out to him by the general; “in this instance I may fairly and freely accept your thanks; but you have already tendered them, and fully discharged your debt—if indeed there existed one—and I feel almost mortified to find you still reverting to the subject.
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