retrogress

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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

But it must be a slow, and occasionally an interrupted progress, after a sad retrogress of nearly twelve years.'

From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.

The pituitary, too, begins to retrogress after the period of maturity.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman