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• n  a failure to maintain a higher state
• v  go back to a previous state
• v  undergo reversion, as in a mutation
• s  tending to return to an earlier state

• Or maybe Puritan Frost was merely reverting to form.
• She doesn't know any teachers in the upper grades who address the issue of handwriting, and she frequently sees her former students reverting to old habits.
• Just as victory had seemed to liberate him, defeat sent him reverting to his old caustic persona.

• backsliding
• lapse
• lapsing
• relapse
• relapsing
• reversion
• revert
• return
• retrovert
• regress
• turn back
• returning

News & Articles

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• Offensive changes paying off as Chicago Fire eye result against Colorado Rapids
  BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – Chicago Fire coach Frank Klopas tried to get offensive with his midfield lineup early in the season, but his attempt was futile in three scoreless games before pulling the plug and reverting to a two-defensive midfielder formation.
  June 19, 2013 - MLS via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Simon Crean in The Canberra Times
  Reverting to protectionism will not save jobs,Mr Crean said through a spokesman.
• Rick Wagoner in DetNews.com
  With the price of oil at its lowest level in 19 months, we run the risk of reverting back to our traditional energy policy,Wagoner said, according to an advance copy of his remarks, referring to US dependence on cheap foreign oil. "I hope...
• John Boehner in Globe and Mail
  Republican John Boehner, who is the Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, denounced the move as "further evidence that the White House is reverting to a pre-9/11 mentality, treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue and hoping for the...