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Phrase(s): revert to someone or something
1. to return to some type of person or a former state. • After he was out of prison, he reverted to a life of crime. • She quickly reverted to her childhood dialect after a few weeks at home. 2. to become the property of someone, a group, or an institution. • At the end of ten years, this house and the land it sits on reverts to the youngest living child. • Then the property reverts to the state.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs