REVERT

revert

Noun

  1. One who, or that which, reverts.
  2. A convert to Islam.
  3. The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
    We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

Verb

  1. To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  3. To cause to return to a former condition.
  4. To return; to come back.
  5. To return to the possession of.
    1. Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
  6. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
  7. To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
  8. To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  9. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
  10. To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.
  11. To convert to Islam.
  12. To reply; to come back.


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