I. WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS
VII. CHANGE
1. SIMPLE CHANGE
Reversion.
[Nouns] reversion, return; revulsion.
turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum ["The state in which it was before the war" (Latin)]; calm before a storm.
alternation (periodicity) [more]; inversion [more]; recoil [more]; retreat, regression, retrogression [more]; restoration [more]; relapse, recidivism [more]; atavism; vicinism.
[Verbs] revert, turn back; relapse [more]; recoil [more]; retreat [more]; restore [more]; undo, unmake; turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale.
