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Regress

verb

(past & past part. regressed; pres. part. regressing)

Go back to a statistical means.

Go back to a previous state. Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back.

Get worse or fall back to a previous condition. Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress.

Go back to bad behavior. Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress.

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"Regress" Quotes from Famous Books

... Montanus," quoth Ganymede, "enter with a deep insight into the despair of thy fancies, and thou shalt see the depth of thine own follies; for, poor man, thy progress in love is a regress to loss, swimming against the stream with the crab, and flying with Apis Indica against wind and weather. Thou seekest with Phoebus to win Daphne, and she flies faster than thou canst follow: thy desires soar with the hobby,[1] but her disdain reacheth higher than thou canst make ...

— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge

... the town of Magnolia, near which they had been directed to find the engineers' camp, they descried a log house and drew up before it to enquire the way. Half the building was store, and half was dwelling house. At the door of the latter stood a regress with a bright turban on her head, to whom ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

Words linked to "Regress" : abstract thought, reasoning, resile, reversal, lose, turn, drop off, change, recover, decline, fall behind, logical thinking, recede, progress, change by reversal, go back, recuperate, worsen, reverse