Thesaurus: regress

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1. n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
2. n. The power or liberty of passing back.
3. v. i. To go back; to return to a former place or state.
4. n. the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
5. n. returning to a former state
6. v. go back to a statistical means
7. v. go back to a previous state
8. v. get worse or fall back to a previous condition
9. v. go back to bad behavior
10. 1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man". F. Harrison. 2. The power or liberty of passing back. Shak. To go back; to return to a former place or state. Sir T. Browne.
11. To go back; to return to a former place or state. Sir T.Browne.
12. n:12/v:88 n. the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence v. go back to a statistical means v. get worse or fall back to a previous condition