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Backslide
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Backslide has 1 sense
- backslide(v = verb.change) lapse - drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards; Array is one way to drop away, drop off, fall away, slip
Derived form noun backslider1
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
Backslide, v. i. [Back, adv. + slide.].
To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Backslide, v.intr. (past -slid; past part. -slid or -slidden) relapse into bad ways or error.
Derivative
backslider n.
THESAURUS
Backslide
cock, defect, degenerate, desert, err, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall away, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, get behind, go astray, go backwards, go behind, go wrong, have a relapse, jerk back, lapse, lapse back, lose ground, pull back, recede, recidivate, recur to, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, retrovert, return, return to, reverse, revert, revert to, sink back, slide back, slip, slip back, tergiversate, trip, turn, yield again to
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