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Reverting

noun

A failure to maintain a higher state. Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion.

adjective

Tending to return to an earlier state. Synonym: returning.

Revert

verb

(past & past part. reverted; pres. part. reverting)

Go back to a previous state. Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back.

Undergo reversion, as in a mutation.

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"Reverting" Quotes from Famous Books

... a sigh. "I don't do it on purpose. The only thing, this afternoon," she went on, reverting to the other question, "would be their ...

— Some Short Stories • Henry James

... our tents a few feet back from the shore; and stood watching him while he did so, one eye reverting occasionally to Evelyn Grey and Kemper. They both were seated cross-legged beside the branch, and they seemed to be talking a great deal and rather earnestly. I couldn't quite understand what they found to talk about so earnestly and volubly all of a sudden, inasmuch ...

— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers

... wheeled suddenly round, which fortunately set the poor manager at liberty. Both stared at Bertram: the Frenchman looked up for a moment: even the White Hat, being taken by surprise, made a half wheel on his chair; though immediately reverting, not without some indignation at himself, to his former position; in fact every soul in the room looked at Bertram except the Dutchman. Silence ensued; and the landlord, after raising and dropping his eyes alternately from Bertram's ...

— Walladmor: - And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. - In Two Volumes. Vol. I. • Thomas De Quincey

... convent—yes," I cried, my mind reverting back to the conversation I had heard between ...

— The Birthright • Joseph Hocking

... remarked; "but, upon my word, better couldna hae happened him, for he was a cruel-hearted man." Then, reverting to his relative, "Puir Jamie," he said; "but I think we'll manage to get Jamie oot o' his scrape by-and-by. I hae gude interest wi' the governor, through a certain acquaintance, and houpe to be able to get him a free pardon in a whily. ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII • various

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