Adjective reverting has 1 sense
  1. returning, reverting - tending to return to an earlier state
    Antonym: progressive (indirect, via regressive)
,Noun reverting has 1 sense
  1. backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting - a failure to maintain a higher state
    --1 is a kind of failure
    --1 has particulars: recidivism
    Derived form: verb revert1
,Verb revert has 2 senses
  1. revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
    --1 is one way to change by reversal, turn, reverse
    Derived forms: noun reversion5, noun reverting1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. revert - undergo reversion, as in a mutation
    --2 is one way to
    mutate
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
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