| revert | | |
| v. (change) | 1. regress, retrovert, return, revert, turn back | go back to a previous state.; "We reverted to the old rules" |
| ~ recidivate, relapse, retrogress, lapse, regress, fall back | go back to bad behavior.; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" |
| ~ change by reversal, reverse, turn | change to the contrary.; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" |
| ~ resile | return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed.; "The rubber tubes resile" |
| ~ recuperate, go back, recover | regain a former condition after a financial loss.; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate" |
| v. (change) | 2. revert | undergo reversion, as in a mutation. |
| ~ mutate | undergo mutation.; "cells mutate" |
| backfire | | |
| n. (event) | 1. backfire, blowback | the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired. |
| ~ blowup, detonation, explosion | a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction. |
| ~ back-blast, backblast | backfire from a recoilless weapon. |
| n. (event) | 2. backfire | a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine. |
| ~ blowup, detonation, explosion | a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction. |
| n. (event) | 3. backfire | a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path. |
| ~ fire | the event of something burning (often destructive).; "they lost everything in the fire" |
| n. (act) | 4. backfire, boomerang | a miscalculation that recoils on its maker. |
| ~ miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning | a mistake in calculating. |
| v. (social) | 5. backfire, backlash, recoil | come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect.; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (perception) | 6. backfire | emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire.; "My old car backfires all the time" |
| ~ make noise, noise, resound | emit a noise. |
| v. (change) | 7. backfire | set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire. |
| ~ burn, burn down, fire | destroy by fire.; "They burned the house and his diaries" |
| boomerang | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. boomerang, throw stick, throwing stick | a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower. |
| ~ kiley, kylie | an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex. |
| ~ projectile, missile | a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled. |
| ~ australia, commonwealth of australia | a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony. |
| v. (motion) | 2. boomerang | return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang. |
| ~ return | go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean" |
| retort | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte | a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).; "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher" |
| ~ back talk, backtalk, sass, sassing, lip, mouth | an impudent or insolent rejoinder.; "don't give me any of your sass" |
| ~ reply, response | the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange.; "he growled his reply" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. retort | a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat. |
| ~ alembic | an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube. |
| ~ still | an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed. |
| ~ vessel | an object used as a container (especially for liquids). |
| v. (communication) | 3. come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return, riposte | answer back. |
| ~ answer, reply, respond | react verbally.; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" |
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