Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb revert

2 senses of revert

Sense 1
revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back -- (go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules")
       => change by reversal, turn, reverse -- (change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern")

Sense 2
revert -- (undergo reversion, as in a mutation)
       => mutate -- (undergo mutation; "cells mutate")