reversion
reversion is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of returning, or coming back; return. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of returning, or coming back; return.
- noun. That which reverts or returns; residue.
- noun. The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.
- noun. Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
- noun. A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.
- noun. A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
- noun. a failure to maintain a higher state
- noun. returning to a former state
- noun. turning in the opposite direction
- noun. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- noun. (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- noun. (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)
Synonyms
backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting, regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround, atavism, throwback
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in reversion:
Common word forms
reversions, reversional, reversioner, reversionable
Words from these letters
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