Another word for relapse
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Verb
To slip from a higher or better condition to a former, usually lower or poorer one
- (Law) To be returned to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
- To go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief:
- (Biol.) To return to a former or primitive type; show ancestral characteristics normally no longer present in the species
- To go or move backward.
- To return to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition.
- To move backward or away from a reference point; recede:
- To go back; return; move backward
- To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state:
- To become forfeit or void because of failure to pay the premium at the stipulated time
- To pass gradually or smoothly; slip:
- To be no longer valid or active; expire:
Noun
A slipping from a higher or better condition to a lower or poorer one
- The repeating of or returning to criminal behavior by the same offender or type of offender.
- Habitual or chronic relapse, or tendency to relapse, esp. into crime or antisocial behavior
- The failure of a bequest or devise to take effect because of the death of the person who was to receive it
- A break in continuity; a pause:
- A deterioration or decline:
- An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense
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Another word for relapse
Noun
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- (Law) The act or an instance of changing or setting aside a lower court's decision by a higher court.
- A usually adverse change in fortune:
- A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
- A mechanism, such as a gear in a motor vehicle, that is used to reverse movement.
- A mechanism, etc. for reversing, as a gear arrangement in a transmission that causes a machine, motor vehicle, etc. to run backward or in the opposite direction
- A change to an opposite position, condition, or direction.
- The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
- A period of decline
- A downward movement or fall, as in price.
- The process or result of declining, especially a deterioration of health:
- The act or an instance of recurring; reoccurrence, return, repetition, etc.
- (Biol.) Reversion to an earlier or simpler form, or to a general or common type
- (Psychology) In psychoanalytic theory, reversion to an earlier or less mature stage of psychological development.
- (Psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense
- The repeating of or returning to criminal behavior by the same offender or type of offender.
- Habitual or chronic relapse, or tendency to relapse, esp. into crime or antisocial behavior
- (Genetics) A return to the normal phenotype, usually by a second mutation.
- The return of an estate to the grantor or the grantor's heirs by operation of law after the period of a grant is over
- A return to a former condition, belief, or interest.
Verb
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- To die, especially from a disease or injury.
- To give way (to); yield; submit
- To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in.
- To make or become weak or weaker.
- (Intransitive) To become weaker.
- To lose former normal or higher qualities
- To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate:
- To decline or become debased morally, culturally, etc.
- To make or become worse; lower in quality or value; depreciate
- To grow worse; degenerate:
- To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value:
- To move backward or away from a reference point; recede:
- To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
- To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state:
- (Law) To be returned to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
- (Biol.) To return to a former or primitive type; show ancestral characteristics normally no longer present in the species
- To go back in action, thought, speech, etc.; return, as to a former practice, opinion, state, or subject
- (--- Theology) To lose primordial innocence and happiness. Used of humanity as a result of the Fall.
- To pass into a particular state, condition, or situation:
- To come forth as if by falling; issue:
- To go or move backward.
- To move backward, esp. into an earlier, less complex, or worse condition; decline; degenerate
- To fall from a previous level or standard, as of accomplishment, quality, or conduct:
- To slip or fall; esp., to slip into a specified state
- To slip or deviate from a higher standard or fall into (former) erroneous ways; backslide
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