Near-synonym: reversal
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Reversion
/ɹɪˈvɜːʒ(ə)n̩/
Synonyms for "reversion" (168 found)
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Closest matches (34)
Noun(10 words)
about faceabout-faceabout-turnalternationatavismback trackback trailbackingbacking offbacking outbacking upbacksetbackslidingbackupbackward deviationbequeathalbequestbirthrightborough-englishcoheirship
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Strong matches (50)
ectropionentailequitable estateestate at sufferanceestate for lifeestate for yearsestate in expectancyestate in feeestate in possessionestate taileversionfalling backfeefee simplefee tailfeodfeodumfeudfeudal estatefief
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flip flopgavelkindheirloomheirshiphereditamentheritableheritageheritanceimprovementincorporeal hereditamentinheritanceinstaurationintroversionintussusceptioninvaginationinversionlapselaw of successionleaseleaseholdlegacylegal estateline of successionmode of successionparamount estateparticular estatepatrimony
Related words (84)
postremogenitureprimogeniturepronationreactivationrecidivismreclamationreconstitutionreconversionrecrudescencerecurrenceredintegrationreenactmentreestablishmentreformationregressionrehabilitationreinstatementreinstationreinstitutionreinvestiture
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reinvestmentrelapseremainderrenewalreplacementrestitutionrestorationresupinationretroflexionretroversionreturnreversalreversereversingrevulsionright-aboutright-about-facesetbackshifting trustshifting usesuccessionsupinationswingaroundthrowbacktopsy-turvinesstopsy-turvydomtransposaltranspositionturnturnaboutturnaroundturningturning backturning backwardsturning inside outturning inwardturning overultimogeniturevested estatevolte facevolte-face
Related word relations
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More general
14 entrieschangechange of directionchromosomal mutationfailuregenetic changegenetic mutationinterestmutationprocessrecurrencereorientationreturnreversalstake
More specific
4 entriesCollocations
5 entriesback mutationgenetic reversionreversion ratereversion to typerevertant allele
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
4 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- връщане към noun (return)
Dutch
1 entries- terugkeer noun (return)
French
1 entries- retour noun (return)
Latin
1 entries- reversiō noun (return)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.
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Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it. That's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.
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Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on the Blue and Silver—
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