1. (v. t.) To change back to a former condition; to reverse\.

2. (v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

3. (v. t.) To change back. See Revert.

4. (v. i.) To return; to come back.

5. (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

6. (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

7. (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

8. (n.) One who, or that which, reverts.

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