RETROGRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retrogress mean? 

• RETROGRESS (verb)
  The verb RETROGRESS has 2 senses:

1. get worse or fall back to a previous condition

2. go back to bad behavior

  Familiarity information: RETROGRESS used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETROGRESS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they retrogress    ... he / she / it retrogresses   
Past simple: retrogressed   
Past participle: retrogressed   
-ing form: retrogressing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get worse or fall back to a previous condition

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

regress; retrograde; retrogress

Hypernyms (to "retrogress" is one way to...):

decline; worsen (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "retrogress"):

drop off; fall back; fall behind; recede (retreat)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

retrogression (returning to a former state)

retrogressive (going from better to worse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go back to bad behavior

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fall back; lapse; recidivate; regress; relapse; retrogress

Context example:

Those who recidivate are often minor criminals

Hypernyms (to "retrogress" is one way to...):

regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s