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noun
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The power or liberty of passing back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law, property
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verb
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: backslide, reconvert, deconvert, regress
Antonyms: advance, proceed, progress
verb
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
Synonyms: backslide, reconvert, deconvert, regress
Antonyms: advance, proceed, progress
verb
To move in the retrograde direction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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verb
To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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verb
To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
returning to a former state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: regression, reversion, retrogression, retroversion
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Broader terms: reversal
noun
the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: reasoning backward
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Broader terms: reasoning, logical thinking, abstract thought
verb
go back to bad behavior
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: relapse, lapse, recidivate, retrogress, fall back
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Broader terms: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
verb
get worse or fall back to a previous condition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress
Antonyms: progress
Broader terms: worsen, decline
Narrower terms: fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recede
verb
go back to a previous state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: revert, return, retrovert, turn back
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change by reversal, turn, reverse
Narrower terms: relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back, resile, recover, go back, recuperate
verb
go back to a statistical means
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: change
History
(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”). Doublet of regressus.
Across languages
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