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revert to sb
legal
to become the property of a particular person again
• When I die, the house will revert to my sister., revert to sth
to return to doing, using, being or referring to something, usually something bad or less satisfactory
• Why does the conversation have to revert to money every five minutes?
• [ + -ing verb ]: When they divorced, she reverted to using her maiden name.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs