Definition of revert

• v. t. - To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
• v. t. - To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
• v. t. - To change back. See Revert, v. i.
• v. i. - To return; to come back.
• v. i. - To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
• v. i. - To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
• v. i. - To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
• n. - One who, or that which, reverts.