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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| revert | |
| —vb (foll by to) | |
| 1. | to go back to a former practice, condition, belief, etc: she reverted to her old wicked ways |
| 2. | to take up again or come back to a former topic |
| 3. | biology (of individuals, organs, etc) to return to a more primitive, earlier, or simpler condition or type |
| 4. | (US) to reply to someone: we will revert to you with pricing and other details |
| 5. | property law (of an estate or interest in land) to return to its former owner or his heirs when a grant, esp a grant for the lifetime of the grantee, comes to an end |
| 6. | revert to type to resume characteristics that were thought to have disappeared |
| —n | |
| 7. | a person who, having been converted, has returned to his former beliefs or Church |
| [C13: from Latin revertere to return, from | |
| usage Since back is part of the meaning of revert, one should not say that someone reverts back to a certain type of behaviour | |
| re'verter | |
| —n | |
| re'vertible | |
| —adj | |