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reverting

/ri-vurt/US // rɪˈvɜrt //

回归,恢复原状,逆转,回归的

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.
    • : Law. to go back to or return to the former owner or to his or her heirs.
    • : Biology. to return to an earlier or primitive type.
    • : to go back in thought or discussion: He constantly reverted to his childhood.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that reverts.
    • : Law. a reversion.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbreturn to an earlier, less-developed condition
Forms: reverted

Examples

  • I asked him to describe the U.S. mission that will likely revert back to the embassy it was more than a half century ago.

  • If a bad edit appeared, the community could simply get rid of it by clicking on a “revert” link.

  • And will Pam and Cheryl revert back from the Coke Monster and Cherlene?

  • Classically, by turning on/off several genetic switches, scientists can revert cells to a less specialized stage.

  • For her sake, New York cannot revert to the way it used to be.

  • Unfortunately these people have no children; therefore on their death their property, now considerable, will revert to the master.

  • But though they use all their limbs as walking organs, they show no tendency to revert to the habit of the quadrupeds.

  • In the event of her death, this money shall revert to the parish of Pontiac, in whose graveyard I wish my body to lie.

  • But my thoughts would revert to these last words of Ormsby's.

  • So you see these actions are likely to revert to the sender, even if they are successful.