revert

About 1.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One who, or that which, reverts.
2. noun One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
3. noun A convert to Islam.
4. noun The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

   We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

5. noun The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
6. verb To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
7. verb To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. verb To cause to return to a former condition.

Similar words

regress turn back return reversion rollback backslide returning reversing retrieve recover

Often followed by

to back in the from again for once with

Word family

reverted reverter reverters revertible reverting reverts