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revert

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  1. return                
 
re.vert \ri-'v*rt\ \-'v*rt-*-b*l\ vi [ME reverten, fr. MF revertir, fr. L 
   revertere, v.t. to turn]back & reverti v.i. to return, come back, fr. re- + 
   vertere, verti to turn - more at WORTH 1: to come or go back {many ~ed to 
   savagery}  2: to return to the proprietor or his heirs at the end of a 
   reversion  3: to return to an ancestral type  - re.vert.er n