verb
apostatize, break faith, fall from grace; see relapse.
See backslide in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To slip from a higher or better condition to a former, usually lower or poorer one:
A slipping from a higher or better condition to a lower or poorer one:
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