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lapse, backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting | a failure to maintain a higher state | |
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reversion, regression, regress, retrogression, retroversion | returning to a former state | |
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reversion, atavism, throwback | a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | |
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reversion, reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround | turning in the opposite direction | |
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reversion | [in genetics] a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | |
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reversion | [in 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) |