Verb

(en verb)

(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

* Prior

Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.

* Thomson

The tumbling stream / Reverted , plays in undulating flow.

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

To cause to return to a former condition.

(now rare) To return; to come back.

* Shakespeare

So that my arrows / Would have reverted to my bow again.

To return to the possession of.

# (legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

(biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.

(intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.

* 1995 , Wiz?rat al-I?l?m wa-al-Thaq?fah, Sudanow: Volume 20

He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam.

* 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons

The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.

* 2003 , Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumu?ah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12

But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life.

(intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To reply; to come back.

(math) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + ...'', where one variable ''y'' is expressed in powers of a second variable ''x''), so as to find the second variable ''x'' expressed in a series arranged in powers of ''y .

Verb

(replac)

To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.

The earl...was replaced in his government. — .

To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.

To supply or substitute an equivalent for.

I replaced my car with a newer model.

The batteries were dead so I replaced them

* '>citation

Next Wednesday, four women and 15 men on the Crown Nominations Commission will gather for two days of prayer and horsetrading to replace Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury.

To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.

This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier.

This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. — .

To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.

(rare) To place again.

(rare) To put in a new or different place.