retrogress
Example Sentences
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Not to struggle is to retrogress, to collapse, to go revisionist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir: Premarital Murdock flagrantly contradicts his own anthropology and science when he advocates that we should retrogress thousands of years into the primitive "gland-motivated" society.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may after a time remain stationary, or, in rare instances, retrogress; as a rule, however, it is progressive.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
We don't stand still or retrogress; we keep going on and up.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
What had caused the man to retrogress Luis and Luise Obispo?
From Forget Me Nearly by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace
