retrogress









retrogress


verb (used without object)

  1. to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
  2. to move backward.

verb (intr)

  1. to go back to an earlier, esp worse, condition; degenerate or deteriorate
  2. to move backwards; recede
  3. biology to develop characteristics or features of lower or simpler organisms; degenerate
v.

“move backward; deteriorate,” 1816, probably a back-formation from retrogression. Related: Retrogressed; retrogressing.

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