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1. Tending to return to an earlier state
   - returning

1. A failure to maintain a higher state
   - backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion

1. Go back to a previous state
   "We reverted to the old rules";
   - return, retrovert, regress, turn back
    
2. Undergo reversion, as in a mutation
    
3. (law) return to the proprietor after termination

See also: regressive

Type of: change by reversal, failure, mutate, reverse, turn

Encyclopedia: Reverting