revertible Definition
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revert
verb, usually intr reverted, reverting
- 1. To return to as a topic in thought or conversation).
2. To return to a former and usually worse state, practice, way of behaving, etc.
- Example: He reverted to his drinking
- Thesaurus: relapse, regress, backslide, retrogress, reverse, lapse, return; Antonym: progress.
- The change from a mutant physical characteristic of an individual to the characteristic most frequently found in natural populations (ie wild type).
- Said especially of property: to return to an original owner or their heirs after belonging temporarily to someone else.
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