revert to

verb

reverted to; reverting to; reverts to

1

: to go back or return to (an earlier state, condition, situation, etc.)

She has reverted (back) to her old habits.

My blood pressure has reverted to normal.

After playing badly in the last two games, he seems to have reverted to (is previous) form.

2

law, of property : to be given to (a former owner or a former owner's heir)

The estate reverted to a distant cousin.

Examples of revert to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Seeing Kehlani revert to a giddy teenager was another tender highlight of the night. — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 27 Sep. 2026

Caleb died as a summer arrangement splitting custody equally between him and Merritt was set to revert to Caleb having sole custody, according to CBC and the Star. — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026

Eighty years of evidence, much of it the party’s own, shows cadres parroting the scripts given to them, performing the required contrition, and then reverting to their earlier behaviors the moment the campaign ends. — Andrew Mertha, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026

For many, however, these problems have reverted to out-of-sight-out-of-mind mode. — Mike Jones, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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