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US
/ɹɪˈvɝtɪŋ/
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[ UK /ɹɪvˈɜːtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪvˈɜːtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- tending to return to an earlier state
NOUN
- 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
- There seemed only one explanation: treated Haluk were somehow reverting to their original allomorphic state. Sagittarius Whorl
- There is no question of reverting to cheaper diesel-electric submarines. Times, Sunday Times
- But the conversation languished, and in the ever-lengthening silences all found their thoughts reverting to the idea brutally expressed by Mr. Ryan: Muslin
- Reverting to Baby-Talk nicknames, even in jest, is just another nail in the coffin of this blogs masculinity. Cheeseburger Gothic » That went well.
- The service is reverting to the direct route between the town centre and Kirkwall Airport and the diversion across the Heathery Loan will be discontinued.
- The body politic is frozen, incapable of making either bold advancements forward or retrenching, and then reverting back to simpler time. Matthew Yglesias » Olivier Blanchard on the Case for Higher Inflation
- It is rather sad, therefore, to hear the principal propagandists, and the spokesperson of this administration, reverting to denigration, vituperation, slander and assassination of the character of the Father of the Nation.
- Reverting to a full troop withdrawal stance would be both pointless and disastrous in policy terms.
- Other political parties, like the NP, have nothing else to campaign about and can no longer use their" swart - "and" rooigevaar "tactics and are now reverting to using the" moving parliament gevaar ". OPPOSITION USING "MOVING PARLIAMENT GEVAAR" AS ELECTION CAMPAIGN