Relapse synonyms
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Habitual or chronic relapse, or tendency to relapse, esp. into crime or antisocial behavior
(Sports) A maneuver in wrestling in which a competitor being controlled by the opponent suddenly reverses the situation and gains control.
To give way (to); yield; submit
To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state:
decompensation (related)
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The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense
A reduction or diminution of activity.
The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Reverse is defined as the opposite or the opposing side of something.
To slip or fall; esp., to slip into a specified state
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Fall is defined as to drop or come down, often unexpectedly.
To revert to bad habits or lapse in religious practice.
become a backslider
(Biol.) To return to a former or primitive type; show ancestral characteristics normally no longer present in the species
suffer a relapse
Deteriorate is defined as to make or become worse or lower in value or quality.
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(Biol.) To undergo degeneration; deteriorate
To turn back.
To make or become weak or weaker
sink back
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fall into again
slide back
slip back
be overcome
decay (related)
The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
loss (related)
The amount of something lost:
Of, relating to, or being a palindrome.
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recidivous
Prone to relapse into immoral or antisocial behavior.
retrocessive
Tending to retrocede; moving backward.
A bending or sloping downward; deviation from the horizontal or vertical
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To cause or allow to fall or go down; lower
To cause to slip or move with a smooth, sliding motion
To sit down slowly; settle down:
To make or become worse
improvement (antonym)
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
strengthening (antonym)
That to strengthen.
healing (antonym)
An act of healing, as by a faith healer.
improve (antonym)
To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better:
recover (antonym)
(Law) To gain by legal process.
strengthen (antonym)
get-better (antonym)
(Idiomatic) To recover from illness or other incapacitation.
heal (antonym)
(Intransitive) To become better.
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better (related)
To a greater extent or degree:
repetition (related)
To petition again.
a failure to maintain a higher state
a failure to maintain a higher state
get worse
deteriorate in health
exacerbation (related)
neutropenia (related)
heart-failure (related)
hypoglycaemia (related)
myocardial-infarction (related)
emesis (related)
pancreatitis (related)
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illness (related)
restenosis (related)
hypoglycemia (related)
give in to again
Find another word for relapse. In this page you can discover 75 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for relapse, like: recidivism, reversal, succumb, ebb, progress, regress, decompensation, reversion, backsliding, decline and deterioration.