re·vert (rĭ-vûrt')
intr.v., -vert·ed, -vert·ing, -verts.

1. To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
2. Law. To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
3. Genetics. To undergo reversion.

[Middle English reverten, from Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertīre, variant of Latin revertere : re-, re- + vertere, to turn.]

reverter re·vert'er n.
revertible re·vert'i·ble adj.
revertive re·ver'tive adj.

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