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The act or process of reverting something.countableuncountable
- Near-synonym: reversal
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The act or process of reverting something.; The act or process of reverting a database to a prior state.countableuncountable
- Near-synonym: rollback (sometimes synonymous)
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The action of returning to a former condition or practice.countableuncountable
- With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.
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The fact of being turned the reverse way.countableuncountable
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The action of turning something the reverse way.countableuncountable
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The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.countableuncountable
- Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on th
- Each day too slew it’s^([sic]) thousands six or seven, Till at the crowning carnage—Waterloo— They threw their pens down in divine disgust, The page was so besmeared with blood and dust. […] (Here, Sathan’s sole good work deserves insertion
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An estate which has been returned in this manner.countableuncountable
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The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.countableuncountable
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The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.countableuncountable
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The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.countableuncountable
syn. deconversion · regression · restitution · restoration · reversion · step back
ant. conversion