reverted Definition

revert
verb, usually intr reverted, reverting

1. To return to as a topic in thought or conversation).
2. To return to a former and usually worse state, practice, way of behaving, etc.

Example: He reverted to his drinking
Thesaurus: relapse, regress, backslide, retrogress, reverse, lapse, return; Antonym: progress.
3. biol.
The change from a mutant physical characteristic of an individual to the characteristic most frequently found in natural populations (ie wild type).
4. law.
Said especially of property: to return to an original owner or their heirs after belonging temporarily to someone else.
5. To turn something back.

Derivative: revertible
adj

Etymology: 13c: from Latin revertere to turn back.