revert
ri vurt
- v go back to a previous state
We reverted to the old rules - v undergo reversion, as in a mutation
- As for Ayub's charge that the country would revert to chaos if he is defeated, his rival snapped: "You can't have stability through compulsion, force and the big stick.
- Dolly is living proof that an adult cell can revert to embryonic stage and produce a full new being.
- Researchers took skin cells from donor mice, reprogrammed them to revert back to an embryonic state, then programmed them again to develop into an entire mouse pup.