The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word REVERTED which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 1999.
Returned to prior owner crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REVERTED | 100 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Returned to prior owner
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- return
- returning
- returns
- revert
- revertible
- result
- retroactive
- returnee
- back
- restitution
- reversion
- change
Crossword Answer definitions
REVERTED verb- (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
- (now rare) To return; to come back.
- To return to the possession of.
- To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
- (originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
- 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.
- That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).
- Bent back, reversed.
- Directed backwards.
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