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revert vs reverse

I was just typing up an email and I used the word ‘revert’ in the inital draft. Going over it a second time, I thought about using the word ‘reverse’ there, and quickly searched them. I see the definition being:

Revert means to return to a previous state or condition, while reverse means to move or turn in the opposite direction or to change something to its opposite.

and I think “Reverse means to turn around while revert means to move to a previous state, so reverse is more continuous and revert is more descrete”

I like how the more descrete of the two words ends in a sharper ‘t’ sound while the more continuous one ends in a softer “s” sound.