Revert



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 恢复, 回复到;重新考虑
• ［英］ v. 恢复, 回复到 ( go back to) ; 重新考虑 ( talk about or consider again)

Webster Collegiate

intransitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French revertir, from Latin revertere, verbt., to turn back & reverti, verbi., to return, come back, from re- + vertere, verti to turn — more at worth
• Date: 15th century
• 1. to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject)
• 2. to return to the proprietor or his or her heirs at the end of a reversion
• 3. to return to an ancestral type
• ? reverter noun
• ? revertible adjective

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