To slip from a higher or better condition to a former, usually lower or poorer one

• revert

  1. To go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief:
  2. To resume using something that has been disused:
  3. To be returned to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.

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• retrogress

  1. To return to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition.
  2. To go or move backward.

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• relapse

  1. To return to a former state.
  2. To become sicker after partial recovery from an illness.
  3. To recur. Used of an illness.

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• regress

  1. To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state:
  2. To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
  3. To move backward or away from a reference point; recede:

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• backslide

  1. To revert to bad habits or lapse in religious practice.

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To become or cause to become less active or intense

• wane

  1. To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity:
  2. To show a progressively smaller illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from full to new.
  3. To approach an end:

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• subside

  1. To become less intense, active, or severe; abate.
  2. To become smaller or less prominent, as swelling.
  3. To move or sink to a lower or normal level:

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• slack off

  1. To be unproductive; to not perform one's duties.

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• slacken

  1. To make or become slower; slow down:
  2. To make or become less tense, taut, or firm; loosen:
  3. To make or become less vigorous, intense, or severe; ease:

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• remit

  1. To transmit (money) in payment.
  2. To refrain from exacting (a tax or penalty, for example); cancel.
  3. To pardon; forgive:

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• moderate

  1. Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme:
  2. Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate:
  3. Of medium or average quantity or extent.

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• let up

  1. (intransitive, of something intense) to lessen
  2. Alternative form of letup.

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• fall off

  1. (intransitive) To become detached or to drop from.
  2. (intransitive) To diminish in size, value etc.
  3. (nautical) To change the direction of the sail so as to point in a direction that is more down wind; to bring the bow leeward.

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• fall

  1. To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity:
  2. To drop oneself to a lower or less erect position:
  3. To lose an upright or erect position suddenly:

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• ebb

  1. The receding or outgoing tide, occurring between the time when the tide is highest and the time when the following tide is lowest.
  2. A period of decline or diminution:
  3. To fall back from the flood stage.

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• ease

  1. The condition of being comfortable or relieved.
  2. Freedom from pain, worry, or agitation:
  3. Freedom from constraint or embarrassment; naturalness.

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• off

  1. From a place or position:
  2. At a certain distance in space or time:
  3. From a given course or route; aside:

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• down

  1. From a higher to a lower place or position:
  2. Toward, to, or on the ground, floor, or bottom:
  3. Downstairs:

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• die away

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• bate

  1. To lessen the force or intensity of; moderate:
  2. To take away; subtract.

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• abate

  1. To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen:
  2. To put an end to:
  3. To make void:

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To move smoothly, continuously, and effortlessly

• slither

  1. To move or slide by twisting or undulating the body over a surface, as in the manner of a snake.
  2. To walk with a sliding or shuffling gait:
  3. To slip and slide, as on a loose or uneven surface:

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• slip

  1. To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
  2. To move stealthily; steal:
  3. To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint:

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• slide

  1. To move over a surface while maintaining smooth continuous contact.
  2. To participate in a sport that involves such movement:
  3. To lose a secure footing or positioning; slip:

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• glissade

  1. A gliding step in ballet.
  2. A controlled slide, in either a standing or sitting position, used in descending a steep icy or snowy incline.
  3. To perform a glissade.

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• glide

  1. To move in a smooth, effortless manner:
  2. To move silently and furtively:
  3. To occur or pass imperceptibly:

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To become void, especially through passage of time or an omission

• run out

  1. Alternative spelling of runout.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To use up; to consume all of something.
  3. (intransitive) To expire, to come to an end.

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• expire

  1. To come to an end; terminate:
  2. To breathe one's last breath; die:
  3. To exhale; breathe out.

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To move past in time

• pass

  1. To move on or ahead; proceed:
  2. To extend; run:
  3. To move by or in front of something:

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• go

  1. To move or travel; proceed:
  2. To move away from a place; depart:
  3. To pursue a certain course:

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• elapse

  1. To slip by; pass:
  2. Passage; lapse:

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A minor mistake

• fluff

  1. Light down or fuzz, as on a young bird or on a dandelion or milkweed seed.
  2. Something having a very light, soft, or frothy consistency or appearance:
  3. Light or superficial entertainment:

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• slip-up

  1. An error; an oversight.

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• slip

  1. To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
  2. To move stealthily; steal:
  3. To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint:

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An act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true

• trip

  1. A going from one place to another; a journey.
  2. A stumble or fall.
  3. A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.

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• slip-up

  1. An error; an oversight.

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• slip

  1. To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
  2. To move stealthily; steal:
  3. To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint:

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• mistake

  1. An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.
  2. A misconception or misunderstanding.
  3. To understand wrongly; misinterpret:

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• misstep

  1. A misplaced or awkward step.
  2. An instance of wrong or improper conduct; a blunder.
  3. To make a mistake.

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• miscue

  1. A stroke in billiards that misses or just brushes the ball because of a slip of the cue.
  2. A mistake.
  3. To make a miscue.

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• incorrectness

  1. The characteristic of being incorrect.

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• inaccuracy

  1. The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
  2. An instance of being inaccurate; an error.

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• error

  1. An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
  2. The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.
  3. The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.

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• erratum

  1. An error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book.

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A slipping from a higher or better condition to a lower or poorer one

• relapse

  1. To return to a former state.
  2. To become sicker after partial recovery from an illness.
  3. To recur. Used of an illness.

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• recidivism

  1. The repeating of or returning to criminal behavior by the same offender or type of offender.

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• recidivation

  1. Relapse of a disease or a symptom.

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• backsliding

  1. Present participle of backslide.
  2. sliding back
  3. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense

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• backslide

  1. To revert to bad habits or lapse in religious practice.

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To fail slowly

• decline

  1. To express polite refusal:
  2. To slope downward; descend:
  3. To bend downward; droop:

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• deteriorate

  1. To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value:
  2. To grow worse; degenerate:
  3. To weaken or disintegrate; decay:

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• slip

  1. To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
  2. To move stealthily; steal:
  3. To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint:

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To become void

• terminate

  1. To bring to an end or halt:
  2. To occur at or form the end of; conclude or finish:
  3. To discontinue the employment of; dismiss:

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• cease

  1. To put an end to; discontinue:
  2. To come to an end; stop:
  3. To stop performing an activity or action; desist:

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• end

  1. Either extremity of something that has length:
  2. The outside or extreme edge or physical limit; a boundary:
  3. The point in time when an action, event, or phenomenon ceases or is completed; the conclusion:

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