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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

... stayed with the small band of colonists that had overcome their fears enough to mingle together again. Louie frankly deserted his shipmates, and spent all his time with the colonists. Frank, as if reverting to his childhood farming days, occupied himself with trying to round up the stock. He tried to keep the cows separated from their calves so the colonists would have milk to drink, but without ropes or corrals it was hopeless. He finally gave up ...

— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton

... the once prosperous houses not yet abandoned.... Presently, the hills, all hyacinth blue, rise up against the sunset, and the horses' feet are on the "Boston Road"—or rud, according to the authorized pronunciation of that land. Hardly, indeed, in many places, a "rud" to-day, reverting picturesquely into the forest trail over which the early inland settlers rode their horses or drove their oxen with upcountry produce to the sea. They were not a people who sought the easiest way, and the Boston Road reflects their characters: few valleys ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... belongs to the domain of the "what Knows". Essential, absolute truth can be known only through a response thereto of the essential, the absolute, the "what Is", in man's nature. John has attained to a measure of absolute truth, and smiles on reverting to the very superficial ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... you like best to have him so defined, is as desirous as you can be to spare the lady's feelings; and with that view, not reverting to former passages, he has laid before her brother a proposal of alliance, with which Mr. Mowbray ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... "Detestable blackguard!" muttered Lovelace, reverting in his mind to the editor of the journal in question. "What's his name I wonder?" He searched and found it at the top of a column-"Sole Editor and Proprietor, C. Snawley-Grubbs, to whom all checks and post-office orders should be made ...

— Thelma • Marie Corelli

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