retrogress

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Verb (intransitive)
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ret=ro=gress

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb retrogress has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

retrogressn. [Cf. L. retrogressus.].
     Retrogression.  H. Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

retrogress, v.intr.
1 go back; move backwards.
2 deteriorate.

Derivative
retrogressive adj.
Etymology
RETRO-, after PROGRESS v.

THESAURUS

retrogress

advance, ascend, back, back up, backslide, budge, change, change place, circle, climb, cock, come after, come last, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, disimprove, ebb, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, flow, follow, get behind, get over, get worse, go, go around, go back, go backwards, go behind, go round, go sideways, grow worse, gyrate, jerk back, lag behind, lapse, lapse back, let down, lose ground, mount, move, move over, plunge, progress, pull back, recede, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrovert, return, reverse, revert, rise, rotate, run, shift, sicken, sink, slacken, slip back, soar, spin, stir, stream, subside, throw back, trail, trail behind, travel, wane, whirl, worsen

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