Other forms: reverted, reverting, reverts
To revert is to go back to a former state or habit. Revert to type, revert to the old system, the land reverts.
It takes to. Revert to type means to fall back into your natural character after an effort at something else, and it is nearly always said with resignation. In law, property reverts to an owner when an interest ends. In software, to revert a change is to undo it. Note that revert back is redundant, since revert already contains the going back.
1verbrevertTo go back to a former state or habit.
“When the diet ended, he quickly reverted to his old eating habits.”
revert is a returning.
Also accepted in games: return
Latin revertere is re- plus vertere, to turn. Convert, divert and version come from the same turning, so reverting is turning back.
Proto-Indo-European
*wert-
Old French
revertir
English, today
revert
Borrowed from Old French revertir. From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA