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Definition of Revert

Revert

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

Revert Quotations

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.
Eliot Spitzer

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.
Mark Lawrenson

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.
Mark Zandi

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
Herbert Read

I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I'm capable of. The thing to do is not to stop.
Daniel Tammet
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Revert Translations

revert in Latin is reverto
revert in Spanish is revertir

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