revert

  1. Noun.  One who, or that which, reverts.
  2. Noun.  A convert to Islam.
  3. Noun.  (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
  4. Verb.  To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
  5. Verb.  To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate; to get back.
  6. Verb.  To change back.
  7. Verb.  To return; to come back.
  8. Verb.  To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
  9. Verb.  To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  10. Verb.  To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
  11. Verb.  To convert to Islam.

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