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Words related to reversion

Related / Similar Words: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting, regression, regress, retrogression, retroversion, reverse, reversal, turnabout, turnaround, atavism, throwback

Definition:

a failure to maintain a higher state;

returning to a former state;

turning in the opposite direction;

a reappearance of an earlier characteristic;

a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation);

(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee);

Hyponyms: recidivism, about-face, about turn, u-turn, escheat

Derivational Morphology: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back, relapse, lapse, recidivate, retrogress, fall back, get worse, backslide, retrograde, invert, reverse, change by reversal, turn

Anagrams: inversion

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