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# reverting

«reverting» in Mova's school dictionary: **Going back to an earlier state, habit or way of behaving** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb, -ing form of «revert» (revert, reverts, reverted, reverting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Going back to an earlier state, habit or way of behaving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#m1)

2) (law) Property going back to its former owner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#m2)

3) (computing) Undoing changes and going back to an earlier version. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes going back to old habits, such as reverting to bad spelling over the holidays. In computing it means undoing changes to a document or code. In science, wild-bred animals or plants reverting to their wild form. Phrases: «reverting to», «reverting back».

### examples

- After the holidays, he kept reverting to his old messy handwriting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#x1)
- The school is reverting to the old timetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#x2)
- The garden is reverting to wild grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#x3)
- I'm reverting the document to yesterday's version. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#x4)
- Without practice, she was reverting to bad habits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#x5)
- The land is reverting to the farmer after the lease ends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/#x6)

### note

Form of «revert»; always with «to». «Revert back» repeats itself, but people say it. In business English «I will revert» means «I will reply» — this is Indian and some business English, not usual in UK/US.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reverting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.