revert

(noun, verb)

noun

1. One who, or that which, reverts.

2. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another

3. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.

4. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

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

verb

1. go back to a previous state

- We reverted to the old rules

Similar word(s): regress, retrovert, return

Definition categories: change, reverse, turn

2. undergo reversion, as in a mutation

Definition categories: change, mutate

Sentences with revert as a verb:

- If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.

- When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.

- Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.

- Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

- Please revert before Monday.