reverting

Verb

revert (third-person singular simple present reverts, present participle reverting, simple past and past participle reverted)

1. (archaic, transitive) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
   • Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.c. 1700, Matthew Prior, A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
   • Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes / Too ſlightly timbred for ſo loud a Winde, / Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe, / And not where I had arm’d them.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

   Synonyms:

   restore, roll back

4. (transitive) To reverse (a change).
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   undo

5. (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
   • When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.2008, Kidd, Terry T., Chen, Irene, Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, page 261
6. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
   • When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.

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