1. Tending to return to an earlier state
   "The abandoned farmland was reverting to its natural forested state";
   - returning

1. A failure to maintain a higher state
   "His reverting into old habits disappointed his mentor";
   - backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion

1. Go back to a previous state
   "We reverted to the old rules";
   - return, retrovert [rare], regress, turn back
    
2. Undergo reversion, as in a mutation
   "The plant reverted to its wild type after several generations"
    
3. (law) return to the proprietor after termination
   "The property will revert to the original owner if the conditions of the lease are not met"

See also: regressive

Type of: failure, mutate, reverse, turn

Encyclopedia: Reverting