revert

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
2. v. Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
3. v. Genetics To undergo reversion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To turn about or back; reverse the position or direction of.
2. To alter to the contrary; reverse.
3. To cast back; turn to the past.
4. To turn back; face or look backward.
5. To come back to a former place or position; return.
6. To return, as to a former habit, custom, or mode of thought or conduct.
7. In biology, to go back to an earlier, former, or primitive type; reproduce the characteristics of antecedent stages of development; undergo reversion; exhibit atavism.
8. To go back in thought or discourse, as to a former subject of consideration; recur.
9. In law, to return to the donor, or to the former proprietor or his heirs.
10. In chem., to return from a soluble to an insoluble condition: applied to a change which takes place in certain superphosphates. See reversion, 8.
11. n. One who or that which reverts; colloquially, one who is reconverted.
12. n. In music, return; recurrence; antistrophe.
13. n. That which is reverted. Compare introvert, n.

Wiktionary

1. n. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. n. A convert to Islam.
3. n. computing The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
4. v. transitive To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
5. v. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
6. v. transitive To cause to return to a former condition.
7. v. intransitive To return; to come back.
8. v. intransitive To return to the possession of.
9. v. transitive To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
10. v. intransitive To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
11. v. intransitive, biology To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
12. v. intransitive To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
13. v. intransitive To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.
14. v. intransitive To convert to Islam.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
2. v. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. v. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
4. v. To return; to come back.
5. v. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
6. v. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
7. v. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
8. n. One who, or that which, reverts.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. go back to a previous state
2. v. undergo reversion, as in a mutation