rollback

  1. Verb.  (nonstandard) To roll back.
  2. Noun.  A return to a prior state.
  3. Noun.  A withdrawal of military forces.
  4. Noun.  (computing) An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
  5. Noun.  An event caused by a roller coaster failing to reach the top of a hill.

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