retrogress
/ˌrɛtrə(ʊ)ˈɡrɛs
/verb [no object]
Go back to an earlier state, typically a worse one: she retrogressed to the starting point of her rehabilitation...
- This proves that her determination to fight AIDS and to seek justice is retrogressing rapidly.
- A lot of what is on our airwaves is not the kind of thing we want to institutionalise, and to not have a code, we think we have retrogressed.
- Europe had retrogressed almost to a primitive way of life, wherein learning was preserved largely in the monasteries.
Origin
Early 19th century: from retro- 'back', on the pattern of the verb progress.
Rhymes
- perpendicular pronoun
- perpensity
- perpet
- ion channel
- ion chromatography
- ion drive
- ionene
- ion engine
- Ionesco, Eugène
- ion etching
- ion exchange
- ion-exchange chromatography
- ion-exchanged
- ion-exchange polymer
- ion exchanger
- ion-exchange resin
- ion-exchanging
- ion gage
- ion gauge
- ion gun
- Ionia
- Ionian
- Ionian Islands
- Ionian mode
- Ionian Sea