· a failure to maintain a higher state
Synonym(s): backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion
Hypernym(s): failure
· go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
Synonym(s): return, retrovert, regress, turn_back
Hypernym(s): change_by_reversal, turn, reverse
· undergo reversion, as in a mutation
Hypernym(s): mutate
· tending to return to an earlier state
Synonym(s): returning