Definitions For Reversion

noun

  • A failure to maintain a higher state
  • Returning to a former state
  • Turning in the opposite direction
  • A reappearance of an earlier characteristic
  • (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
  • (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
  • An act or process of returning to an earlier condition or state
  • The returning of property to a former owner or to a person who received the right to it when the former owner died

Is Reversion a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
14

The word Reversion is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Reversion in a Sentence

  • His photos document the land's reversion to swamp.
  • The reversion of the estate

Synonyms for Reversion

Antonyms for Reversion

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