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revert
     1. ripristinare, riallacciare
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revert
     1. subst. One who, or that which, reverts.
     2. subst. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
     3. subst. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
     4. subst. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
           We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
     5. v. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
     6. v. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
     7. v. To cause to return to a former condition.
     8. v. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
           If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
     9. v. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
           When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
     10. v.          (intransitive, legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
     11. v. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
           Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
     12. v. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
     13. v. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
     14. v. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
           Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
     15. v. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
     16. v. (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
     17. v. (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally, India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
           Please revert before Monday.
     18. v. (transitive, math) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series ar

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He has since died, mysteriously, and if you died also your payments stop and all will revert to her as the only heir. 



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