reverting back
Going back redundantly
Reverting back is a common redundancy—revert already means to go back, making back unnecessary.
Despite this, the phrase appears frequently in speech and writing: Let's revert back to the original plan, The software reverted back to default settings.
Purists object, but the doubling feels natural to many speakers, perhaps because revert sounds incomplete without it.
- relapseReturn to former illness
- falling off the wagonResuming an abandoned vice
- rollbackReturn to prior condition
- retrogressionMovement to earlier state
- undoingCause of destruction
undo button · recidivism · fallback · reemergence · anachronism · reset · system restore · restoration · backslide · backwardness · throwback · uninstallation · revival · reinitialization · deactivation · factory reset · nostalgia · habit formation
reverting backmoving forward
Continuing toward a goal
progressing · advancing · proceeding · pushing ahead · forging ahead
reverting backpersisting
Continuing through difficulty
continuing · maintaining · persevering · pressing on · keeping on
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