Clues for the word "REVERT"
We've had 16 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 35 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 29, 2025.
Definition of revert
- v. t. - To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
- v. t. - To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- v. t. - To change back. See Revert, v. i.
- v. i. - To return; to come back.
- v. i. - To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
- v. i. - To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- v. i. - To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
- n. - One who, or that which, reverts.
Referring Clues
- Fall back
- Go back
- Return, as to a past practice
- Go back (to)
- Return to a former condition
- Change back
- Fall back (to)
- Fall back on old ways
- Backslide
- Go backwards
- Go back to type
- Always in the right to go back
- Always right to go round or turn back
- Fall back to a former habit
- Turn back, or always right around
- Return
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 09, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 06, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - May 10, 2017
- LA Times - May 21, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 16, 2015
- LA Times - April 23, 2014
- USA Today - October 15, 2013
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 31, 2012
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 26, 2012
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 02, 2012
- Netword - February 15, 2012
- LA Times - February 11, 2012
- Universal - December 24, 2011
- LA Times - January 05, 2011
- Netword - January 02, 2011
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - July 04, 2010
- Universal - March 27, 2009
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 28, 2009
- Guardian Quick - June 26, 2008
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - April 20, 2008
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 14, 2008
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 24, 2007
- Washington Post - September 24, 2007
- Netword - September 20, 2007
- Netword - August 22, 2007
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 22, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 15, 2006
- And in 5 more crossword puzzles...