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

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