verb
1.
Synonyms: return 1, react, recrudesce, recur, turn back
2.
to come or go back to a lower or worse condition
reverted to savagery
Synonyms: regress, retrogress, throw back
Related Word: backslide, lapse, relapse; decline, degenerate, deteriorate, retrograde
Contrasted words: advance, progress
3.
Synonyms: reverse 1, change, inverse, invert, transplace, transpose, turn