Vocabulary
Revert
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
return to (a previous state, practice, topic, etc.).
Urdu meaning
باز آنا، واپس لوٹ آنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Iran could revert them to the desert sheikhdoms they once were.In starting another World War, Trump has opened a modern Pandora`s box, containing `all the world`s evils such as disease, war, and misery`.
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A glass Napoleon
— 2026-03-19
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Will the EU, after being dumped by the US, revert to its Eurocentric policy of neighbourly interdependence?
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Towering hubris
— 2026-01-29
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Will they revert to being the same militia they were before the Doha Agreement, aligned with Al Qaeda, the TTP, and other regional and global terrorist networks?
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Project Taliban 2.0 failing
— 2025-08-31
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This could take the form of considerably less lucrative exchange rates compared to informal channels, which may prompt remitters to revert to using hundi and hawala once again.
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Beyond expectations
— 2025-07-11
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The final call was to undo the gains achieved for civilian rights under the original verdict and revert to status quo ante.
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Military trials
— 2025-05-09
Synonyms
return, go back, come back, change back, retrogress, regress, default, fall back into
Antonyms
depart, escheat, ignore, drop
Curator example
“he reverted to his native language”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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