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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 acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes |