Regress synonyms and antonyms
rĭ-grĕs'
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Part of speech:
To slide backward in morals or religious enthusiasm; become less virtuous, less pious, etc.
Relapse is to return to a prior condition, or to have an illness or addiction reoccur.
To go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief:
retreat (related)
To slope backward
sink (related)
To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages:
recidivous
Prone to relapse into immoral or antisocial behavior.
Of or relating to orbital motion in the direction opposite that of the predominant motion in an orbital system.
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Of or relating to retrogression
(Psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
A deterioration or decline to a previous state
The definition of abate means to become less or lower in amount or force than at a prior time.
To cause to move backward or in a reverse direction:
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(Intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
To ebb means to move out further into the sea and further from land or to gradually decline or lessen.
To recede is to diminish or to move back.
To go back in thought or speech
(Intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
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(Nonstandard) To roll back.
To leave or return, as from a military position.
improve (antonym)
To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better:
progress (antonym)
To progress is to move forward or advance towards completion.
grow (antonym)
To increase in size and develop toward maturity, as a plant or animal does by assimilating food
develop (antonym)
To make available and effective to fulfill a particular end or need:
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
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better (related)
To a greater extent or degree:
repetition (related)
To petition again.
The return, or reappearance, of characteristics present in early ancestral generations but not in those that have intervened
(Medicine) The state or condition of being retroverted.
reasoning backward
the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
To turn back.
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degenerate (related)
mutate (related)
coarsen (related)
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