revert to

phrasal verb

reverted to; reverting to; reverts to

: to go back or return to (an earlier state, condition, situation, etc.)

She has reverted (back) to her old habits.

My blood pressure has reverted to normal.

After playing badly in the last two games, he seems to have reverted to (is previous) form.

law, of property : to be given to (a former owner or a former owner's heir)

The estate reverted to a distant cousin.

Examples of revert to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Invoking a long and complicated history Residents speaking in favor of reverting to the Confederate names included Stuart Didawick, who noted that his family's roots run deep in the community, where his ancestors received land grants in the decades before the American Revolution. —

Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 May 2024 FSAs, provided by employers, allow pre-tax contributions, but funds expire at year-end, with any remaining balance reverting to the employer. —

Liz Clark, Fortune, 7 May 2024 Then the junta, led by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, quickly reverted to its old playbook: jail, terrorize, kill. Pro-democracy forces took up arms, joining with militias that for decades had been fighting for the rights of ethnic minorities. —

Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024 Such a trend would have a negative autocorrelation — the average tends to revert to the mean over time. —

G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2024 The Giants reverted to their worst tendencies, stranding runners and running into outs, and their first game of reliever roulette went south quickly. —

Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2024 Israel could also revert to the ways of its yearslong shadow war with Iran, orchestrating some kind of bloodless cyberattack or relying on spy craft and covert actions against Iranian interests, inside or outside Iran, without claiming responsibility for them. —

Michael Levenson, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024 Once the event was over, the animals reverted to normal behavior. —

Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024 The project, first revealed in January, was the subject of a heated bidding war in the winter, with Warners coming out on top, thanks to a unique deal that will see some of the movie’s rights reverting to the filmmaker over the course of several decades. —

Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024

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