Past tense of revert

regular verb

The past tense of revert is reverted. The past participle is also reverted.

Forms of revert

This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level.1998, Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Steven Black, Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0, page 826
Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
The state highway was decommissioned and reverted to local control.From the entry decommission
Many Shias who had become more Sunni in their religious practices reverted back to their original sect.2012, Eamon Murphy, The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and social roots ..., page 98. From the entry Sunni
He is supposedly an Indian or half-breed who has reverted to an animal existence.1961 July 1, “Big deal”, in Boot and Shoe Recorder, volume 160, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Company, →OCLC, The Last Word, page…. From the entry bigfoot

noun One who, or that which, reverts.
noun One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
noun A convert to Islam.

What is the past tense of revert?: The past tense of revert is reverted.
What is the past participle of revert?: The past participle of revert is reverted.
Is revert a regular or irregular verb?: Revert is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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