We very often hear people using the word ‘back’ with both ‘revert’ and ‘return’. ‘We will be returning back to Hyderabad on the 20th.’ ‘The software company has asked us to revert back to the older version.’ In both these sentences, the word ‘back’ is unnecessary. When you revert to something, you are ‘returning’ or ‘going back’ to it. There is no need to use the word ‘back’ with ‘revert’.
*The new schedule is creating too many problems. Should we revert to the old one?
In legal contexts, the word ‘revert’ can be used to mean ‘to become the property of a person again.’
*If I lose the case, the property will revert to my brother.
SOURCE: THE HINDU
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