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regress

verb as in return to earlier way of doing things

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Example Sentences

But at around 12 months, B. seemed to regress, and by age 2, he had fully retreated into his own world.

When panic sets in, they regress completely and start ordering up things that are technical flops, too.

Or do I step away from the remote and regress, becoming the quaint sort of character who watches only one episode at a time?

When it does, Bralove said, the patient can regress in measureable ways, turning to drugs or alcohol for solace.

To suppose that a food is constituted by eating is to presuppose that eating eats eating, and so on in infinite regress.

Most of them will be shorter, however, and tend to regress toward the racial average.

So that one sex can neither progress nor can it regress by itself; but draws the other onward with it, or drags it back.

The keyhole was still their port of egress and regress, and it resembled the aperture of a beehive, on a sunny day in June.

Even though this cannot be literally true, they perhaps tend to regress into a dream-mood in thinking of and relating the stories.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to regress, such as: degenerate, deteriorate, ebb, fall back, fall off, and recede.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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