Answer to "Backslide, perhaps" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word REVERT which also is the latest solution we found used in Boston Globe in 2001.

Backslide, perhaps crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
REVERT	100 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Backslide, perhaps

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• revert
• err
• dall
• fall
• falls
• slide
• nod
• irrelapsable
• lapse rate
• nos
• npd
• renew

Crossword Answer definitions

REVERT noun

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
3. (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
4. The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

REVERT verb

1. (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. To cause to return to a former condition.
4. (now rare) To return; to come back.
5. To return to the possession of.
6. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
7. To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
8. To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
9. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
10. To take up again or return to a previous topic.
11. (in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
12. (originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
13. To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

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More clues leading to the result REVERT

• Return to a former condition
• Backslide
• Go back (to a previous version)
• Go back to square one
• Backslide, perhaps
• Go back to the way you were
• Fall back on old ways
• Go back (to), as a habit
• Return, as to a past practice
• Go back