1. returns to a previous state, condition, or practice
2. the return of property to a former owner or their heirs
Usage: legal
3. the return of genetic traits to an ancestral type
Usage: biology

Examples

• The country experienced reversions to authoritarian rule after the democratic reforms failed.
• Several reversions to older software versions were necessary after the update caused problems.
• The lawyer explained the property reversions that would occur upon the owner’s death.
• The estate planning included provisions for reversions to the original family.
• Scientists studied genetic reversions in the laboratory mice.
• The reversions to wild-type characteristics surprised the researchers.
• Economic reversions often follow periods of rapid growth.