n
(obsolete) Coming back, return.
v
(idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
v
(computing, video games, transitive) To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.
n
A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
v
(intransitive) To test a strategy, model etc. using data from a previous time.
v
(by extension) To find the cause of something by examining past events
n
The reversal of a previous transfer
n
The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To revolutionize a field of endeavor.
v
(intransitive) To retort.
adj
That has had a previous transformation reversed
v
(idiomatic) To recall or remember something; to experience a flashback.
v
(intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
v
(intransitive, of two or more persons) To have known each other for a certain length of time.
v
(transitive, hunting) To call back (hounds); to recall.
v
(intransitive, chiefly finance) To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen.
v
(transitive) To recast; form or mould anew.
v
(transitive, rare) To turn into a palindrome.
n
Synonym of go-back (item of merchandise to be placed back on a shelf)
n
(computing) The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.
v
(transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
n
(medicine) The emergence or reemergence of symptoms, often with greater severity, when a medicine prescribed to suppress the original symptoms is reduced or discontinued.
v
(transitive) To redirect (a signal etc.) by, or as if by, changing the connections in an electrical circuit.
n
The act of something that recoils.
n
Return or reversion to a certain state.
adj
(entomology) Turned back toward the base.
n
Alternative spelling of réduit [(military, historical, fortifications) A central or retired work within any other work.]
v
(intransitive) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.
n
The power or liberty of passing back.
v
To return, to come back, usually in order to report information.
adj
Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
v
(transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
v
To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
v
(intransitive) To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress.
v
(transitive) To project into the past; to insert anachronistically into a historical reconstruction.
n
(medicine) the pushing or forcing of something to move backwards or inwards.
n
Alternative form of retropulsion [(medicine) a tendency to step or walk backwards involuntarily, especially as a symptom of Parkinsonism]
n
(medicine) a tendency to step or walk backwards involuntarily, especially as a symptom of Parkinsonism
n
The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
n
(rare) Synonym of return
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
n
The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
v
(India, Nigeria) To reply, respond.
adj
That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).
n
(databases) An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
n
(computing) A form of backup where newer data periodically overwrites older data.
v
(transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
v
(transitive, informal) To release a sequel to a work.
v
To carry out a seroreversion
v
To cause to remember some past event or time
v
(transitive) To allocate to one or more timeslots.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To turn over in the mind; to ponder.
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