reversion

reversion
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Return to a former state
Nouns
1. reversion, reverse, reversal, return[ing], reconversion; atavism, reversion to type; turning point, turn of the tide; regression, relapse, recurrence; restoration; inversion; recoil, reaction, backlash. See transfer.
2. throwback, revenant, atavist; repeater, recidivist, backslider; escheat, lapse, succession; reversionist.
Verbs — revert, return, reverse; turn, hark, or go back; recur, recidivate, recrudesce, relapse; restore; retreat, recoil; turn the tide or scale[s]; regress, retrogress, backslide, escheat, lapse; do an about face or a I8o.
Adjectives — reversionary, reversive, reversional, regressive, retrogressive, recidivist; reactionary; atavistic; reversionable.
Quotations — Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone (Publilius Syrus), Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return (Shakespeare), For all at last returns to the sea (Rachel Carson).
Antonyms, see change.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Reversal]
Syn. reversing, inversion, rotation, reaction; see return 2 .
2. [Return to a former state]
Syn. reverting, regression, throwback, atavism; see relapse , renewal .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A return to a former, usually worse condition: regression, retrogradation, retrogression. See FORWARD, REPETITION.

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