Backslides synonyms
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To become forfeit or void because of failure to pay the premium at the stipulated time
(Intransitive) To become worse; to get worse; to deteriorate.
To fall, sink, or collapse, esp. suddenly or heavily
To hold back, suppress, or conceal (evidence, identity, personal interests, etc.)
(Intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
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Having a brief, regularly occurring, apparently backward movement in the sky as viewed from Earth against the background of fixed stars. Retrograde movement of the planets is caused by the differing orbital velocities of Earth and the body observed. For example, the outer planets normally appear to drift gradually eastward in the sky in relation to the fixed stars; that is, they appear night after night to fall a little farther behind the neighboring stars in their westward passage across the sky. However, at certain times a particular planet appears briefly to speed up and move westward a bit more quickly than the neighboring stars. This happens as Earth, in its faster inner orbit, overtakes and passes the planet in its slower outer orbit; the appearance of moving counter to its usual eastward drift is thus simply the result of perspective as seen from Earth.
(Intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.
To fall back into illness
Regress means to go back to a worse or less developed state.
To become less; decrease:
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To fall or lie down heavily and noisily:
To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
(Informal) To fail, esp. after a successful beginning
To move uncertainly or unsteadily; totter; stumble
To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
(Archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
(Football) To move back from the line of scrimmage. Used of a quarterback.
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To fall away or back; decline or recede.
To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value:
To leave empty or alone; abandon.
To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate:
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To surpass or exceed:
Find another word for backslides. In this page you can discover 27 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for backslides, like: lapses, worsens, weakens, wanes, slumps, sinks, reverts, returns, retrogresses, retrogrades and reneges.