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.

a person or thing that reverts.

Law . a reversion.

verb

develop , grow , progress

verb

about-face * , backslide , change , come back , decline , degenerate , deteriorate , fall off the wagon , flip-flop * , go back , hark back , inverse , invert , lapse , react , recrudesce , recur , regress , relapse , resume , retrograde , retrogress , return , take up where left off , throw back , transpose , turn , turn back , reoccur , recover , reverse , undo