revert

To undo a change and restore things to how they were before.

• Please revert that change.
• She reverted the update because it caused errors.
• Can we revert these edits before publishing?

Similar words: undo, reverse

Common phrases: revert a change, revert an edit, revert the update

If property or rights return to their former owner, that owner has them again.

• The land will revert to its owner.
• Publishing rights reverted to her last year.
• When does the property revert to the family?

How to use it: revert to someone (The rights will revert to the author when the contract ends.)

Similar words: return

Common phrases: revert to someone, rights revert, property will revert

To give property or rights back to their former owner.

• The publisher reverted her rights.
• They agreed to revert the property to its former owner.
• Will the company revert the rights to you?

How to use it: revert something to someone (The publisher agreed to revert the rights to the author.)

Similar words: return, restore

Common phrases: revert the rights, revert rights to someone, revert property to someone

An action that returns computer data or code to an earlier state.

• The revert removed the faulty change.
• We performed a revert to restore the earlier code.
• Two reverts were needed after the update failed.

Similar words: rollback, reversal

Common phrases: a git revert, a database revert, perform a revert, a revert commit