· a failure to maintain a higher state

Synonym(s): backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion

Hypernym(s): failure

· go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"

Synonym(s): return, retrovert, regress, turn_back

Hypernym(s): change_by_reversal, turn, reverse

· undergo reversion, as in a mutation

Hypernym(s): mutate

· tending to return to an earlier state

Synonym(s): returning