Synonyms of the word

reversion

• n. The action of reverting something.
• n. The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal.
• n. The fact of being turned the reverse way.
• n. The action of turning something the reverse way.
• n. (law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
• n. (law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
• n. (law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
• n. The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
• n. The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
• n. A sum payable on a person's death.

atavism

• n. The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.
• n. The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of…
• n. (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.

backsliding

• v. present participle of backslide.
• adj. sliding back.
• n. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

failure

• n. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
• n. An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
• n. Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.

interest

• n. (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in…
• n. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
• n. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
• n. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other…
• n. (countable) Something one is interested in.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
• n. (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
• v. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person…
• v. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
• v. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.

lapse

• n. A temporary failure; a slip.
• n. A decline or fall in standards.
• n. A pause in continuity.
• n. An interval of time between events.
• n. A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
• n. (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer…
• n. (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator,…
• n. (theology) A fall or apostasy.
• v. (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
• v. (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
• v. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
• v. (intransitive) To become void.
• v. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence,…

lapsing

• v. present participle of lapse.

mutation

• n. Any alteration or change.
• n. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
• n. A mutant.
• n. (linguistics) An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered…
• n. (rare) A collective noun for a collection of thrushes.

recurrence

• n. Return or reversion to a certain state.
• n. The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
• n. A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
• n. Recourse.

regress

• n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
• n. The power or liberty of passing back.
• n. In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
• v. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
• v. (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

regression

• n. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
• n. An action of travelling back in time.
• n. (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act…
• n. (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a…
• n. (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable…
• n. (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
• n. (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.

relapse

• v. (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.
• v. To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
• n. The act or situation of relapsing.
• n. (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement.
• n. (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.

relapsing

• v. present participle of relapse.
• n. (archaic) A relapse.

reorientation

• n. A new orientation.
• n. The act of changing the direction of something.

retrogression

• n. A deterioration or decline to a previous state.
• n. (biology) A return to a less complex condition.

retroversion

• n. (medicine) The state or condition of being retroverted.

return

• v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
• v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
• v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
• v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
• v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
• v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
• v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
• v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
• v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
• v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
• v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
• v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
• n. The act of returning.
• n. A return ticket.
• n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
• n. An answer.
• n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
• n. Gain or loss from an investment.
• n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
• n. (computing) A carriage return character.
• n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
• n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
• n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
• n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
• n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
• n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

reversal

• n. The state of being reversed.
• n. An instance of reversing.
• n. A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
• adj. Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

reverting

• v. present participle of revert.

stake

• n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven…
• n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer,…
• n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
• n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
• n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
• n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths,…
• n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical…
• v. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
• v. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
• v. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business…

throwback

• n. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
• n. (pejorative) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
• n. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
• n. An atavism.
• n. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.

turnabout

• n. The act of turning about so as to face in the opposite direction.
• n. A reversal of a decision or opinion etc; a change of mind or flip-flop.

turnaround

• n. The act of turning to face in the other direction.
• n. A reversal of policy.
• n. The time required to carry out a task.
• n. A turnabout.
• n. (music) A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
• n. (music) The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
• n. (US, historical) Synonym of goback.