1. a return to a previous state, condition, or practice
2. the legal right of a former owner or their heirs to recover property
Usage: legal
3. the return of genetic traits from earlier generations
Usage: biology

Examples

• The country’s reversion to military rule alarmed international observers.
• After the treatment ended, there was a reversion to his old symptoms.
• The property will undergo reversion to the original family after the lease expires.
• The contract included a reversion clause protecting the author’s rights.
• Scientists studied the genetic reversion in the laboratory mice.
• Her reversion to childhood habits surprised her family.
• The reversion of the land to its natural state took several years.