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reverting

[ US /ɹɪˈvɝtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪvˈɜːtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. tending to return to an earlier state
NOUN
  1. a failure to maintain a higher state

How To Use reverting In A Sentence

  • While full dissolution is unlikely at this point I can see the Baltic States not making their final qualifications needed to adopt the Euro and I could see someone like Greece, Spain or Portugal reverting to their old domestic currencies. Archive 2009-12-27
  • It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood - stained magnificence, and moral squalor.
  • We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accrete possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
  • As he entered the weather and slowed down for the instrument approach, the hydraulic system began cycling valves and reverting to backup systems due to the decay of windmilling RPM on the number two engine.
  • `Forgive me," he said, reverting to his old, professorial jollity. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
  • I left them hastily somewhere in the area of the mucous membrane of the small intestine ( "including that of the plicae circulares") and reverting to my rapidly proliferating list, journeyed back more than 1,360 tempting pages to chorion, only to find myself and it deeply involved with the fetus of mammals. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
  • Why, when there is so much creative talent out there and so many new ideas, do television shows keep reverting back to the same ingenuine, manipulative ploys? 25 « January « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • She is reverting to class and type by perceiving her natural and human surroundings as unquenchably romantic.
  • But at a meeting of the Tone St traders on Monday, July 14 a significant majority voted in favour of reverting to the former traffic system on the street.
  • Death then is a returning or reverting to the former state - dust - of the ground.
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