Regress

Definition: Regress

Regress

Noun

1. The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.

2. Returning to a former state.

Verb

1. Go back to a statistical means.

2. Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules".

3. Get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition.

4. Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "regress" was first used: sometime around 1375. (references)

Law

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Synonyms: Regress

Regression

Noun: regress, regression; retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction; reculade; retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration; recession; (motion from); recess; crab-like motion.

Reversion

Verb: revert, turn back, regress; relapse; recoil; retreat; restore; undo, unmake; turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale.

Crosswords: Regress

German (recourse, redress, regress), Swedish (regress).

I could not kiss just regress (Glycerine; performing artist: Bush)

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Books

• Der Regress im internationalen Privatrecht (reference)

• Der Regress im Sozial- und Privatversicherungsrecht als Regelungsgegenstand der Gesamtschuld : eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zum deutschen und französischen Recht (reference)

• Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C.S. Lewis's Pilgrim's Regress (reference)

• Work in Regress (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Progress & Regress (reference)

• Regress [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Health

One-third of all grades of SIL will regress, whereas 41 percent persist and 25 percent progress. (references)

The lesions can remain stable or can suddenly begin to grow. In a few cases, they have been observed to regress spontaneously. (references)

Although the skin abnormalities usually regress, and sometimes disappear completely, there may be residual neurological difficulties. (references)

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Expressions using "regress": infinite regress ♦ regress to childhood. Additional references.

Albanian

regres (regression, throwback), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, spill, taper, tumble, wane), zmbrapsem (back away, flinch, recede, recoil, wince), lëvizje mbrapsht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكوص (recession, regression), ‏نكص (recoil, retrograde, turn back, withdraw), ‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, unsay, withdraw), ‏إنكفاء (retrogression, retroversion), ‏إنكفأ (retire), ‏إرتداد (apostasy, bounce, defection, kick, rebound, recall, recantation, recess, recoil, reflection, reflexion, relapse, renunciation, repercussion, retroversion, reverberation, withdrawal), ‏إرتد (bounce, cringe, draw back, rebound, recant, recoil, reflex, renegade, renounce, reverberate, shrink, withdraw), ‏رجعة (return). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упадък (decadence, decadency, declination, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, depravation, descent, labefaction, regression, retrogression), упадам, регресирам (retrograde, revert), регрес (retrogression), вървя назад, връщане назад (turn), влизане отново, влизам отново, движа се от изток към запад, движа се обратно, движа се назад (retrograde). (various references)

Chinese 

退步 (degenerate). (various references)

Czech

vracet se (hark back, recur), návrat (recurrence, regression, return). (various references)

Danish

regres (right of recourse). (various references)

Dutch

regres (appeal), verhaal (account, history, narrative, story, tale). (various references)

Farsi 

پس رفتن (Recede, Retire, Retrograde, Retrogress), پس رفت کردن (Recess), پس روی (Retrogradation), سیرقهقراءی کردن (Backslide), برگشت (Back, Backstroke, Lapse, Refluence, Regression, Relapse, Repercussion, Retrogress, Return, Reversal, Revert, Veer). (various references)

Finnish

regressivaade (right of recourse), regressioikeus (right of recourse). (various references)

French

retour en arrière (depth-first backward reasoning), retour (recurrence, repetition, return, reversion), reculer (recede, recoil, rein back, relinquish, retire, retreat), recul (recession, recoil, retreat), recours contre un tiers (right of recourse), recours (recourse, remedy, resort), rétrograder (reduce, retrograde), régression (recession, regression), régresser, se régresser. (various references)

German

Regress (recourse, redress). (various references)

Greek 

προσφυγή εναντίον τρίτων (right of recourse), παλινδρομώ (retrogress), υποτροπιάζω (recrudesce, relapse), οπισθοχώρηση (retreat), οπισθοδρομώ (recoil, retreat, retrograde, retrogress, throw back), δικαίωμα αναγωγής (right of recourse). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחזור אחור� ית. (various references)

Hungarian

visszatérés (come back, comeback, come-back, getting back, hark back, recovery, recurrence, regression, return, reversion), visszafejlõdés (atrophy, regression, retrogression), megtérítési igény, hátramegy, hátrálás (recess, recession, recoiling, regression, shrink). (various references)

Italian

regresso (decline, recourse, regression, setback, throw back). (various references)

Manx

goll er ash (ascend, ascend genealogy, draw back, go back, regression, retrospective, return, reversal, reversion, revert), cooyllaghey (regression, sternway, withdrawal). (various references)

Pig Latin

egressray.(various references)

Portuguese

retrogressão (regression, retrogression), retrogradar (retrograde), retrogradação (retrogradation), retrocesso (backing, backset, backspace, backward travel, dereliction, recess, recession, regression, throwback), retroceder (fall back, flinch, recede, retreat, retrograde, retrogress, revert, run back, set back, shrink, subside), retorno (recurrence, return), regresso (comeback, recurrence, regression, return), regressar (come back, go back, put back, return, revert), recurso contra terceiros (right of recourse), volta (bend, bent, circuit, detour, dog-collar, gyre, jaunt, meander, return, revolution, round, roundabout, slue, spire, stroll, sweep, tour, turn, turnabout, turning, twiddle, twirl, twist, wimple, winding). (various references)

Romanian

retragere (backing, climb down, recall, recession, refuge, retire, retirement, retiring, retraction, retreat, seclusion, withdrawal), regresa (go back, retrogress), regres (regression), intra în declin, declin (anticlimax, consenescence, decay, declension, declination, decline, descent, downhill, ebb, fall, falling off, let down, sunset, wane). (various references)

Russian 

упадок (come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, degeneration, degradation, depression, dilapidation, downgrade, down-grade, downswing, ebb, eclipse, non-event, retrogression, wane), регрессировать регресс, регрессировать (retrograde, retrogress), регресс (regression, throw-back), обратное движение (retrograde motion). (various references)

Scottish

ùdrathad, ùtraid (free egress and regress to common pasture). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

regres (recourse), unazaditi (downgrade), povratak (come back, comeback, recovery, return), nazadovati (go back, retrogress), kretati se nazad. (various references)

Spanish

retroceso (backlash, backward motion, decline, going down, recession, recoil, regression, retrogression), retroceder (back, back away, back up, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, go backwards, move back, move backwards, push back, recede, retrogress, stand back, turn back, walk backward), regreso (come back, cuff, cycle, home-coming, recourse, return), regresar a (lie back, tidy away), dirigirse desde el este hacia el oeste. (various references)

Swedish

regress (right of recourse), återgång (involution, recession, regression, return). (various references)

Turkish

ricat, gerilemek (degrade, deteriorate, draw back, drop back, drop behind, drop off, fall back, lose ground, recede, redound, remount, retreat, retrograde, slip, stand back, turn back, worsen), gerileme (comedown, decadence, declension, decline, downgrade, recession, recessional, regression, retreat, retrocession, retrogadation, retrogression, setback, throwback, withdrawal), geri gitmek (go back, recede, repass, retrocede, retrograde), geri gitme, geri çekilmek (beat a retreat, blench, disengage, fall back, recede, recoil, retire, retract, retreat, set back, shrink back, stand back, step back, withdraw), geri çekilme (departure, disengagement, flight, pullback, recession, recoil, regression, retirement, retreat, witdrawing), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), dönüş (comeback, facing, gyration, regression, return, return journey, Rev, rotation, spin, swing, turn, turning, way back). (various references)

Ukrainian

рухатися у зворотному напрямі, регресувати (retrograde, retrogress), регрес (devolution, regression, retrogression, retroversion, setback), зворотний рух (retrograde, retrogression), повернення (backsliding, comeback, reappearance, recurrence, redemption, reimbursement, reinforcement, restitution, resumption, retrieval, return). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thoái lui (regression), sự thoái bộ (come-down, regression). (various references)

regressus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "regress": regressed, regresses, regressing, regression, regressions, regressive, regressively, regressiveness, regressivenesses, regressivities, regressivity, regressor, regressors. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Regress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Negresco, reges, regressult, regrims, regrows, rogerses, rregress. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: egress, serges.

-2 letters: egers, erses, grees, reges, seers, serer, seres, serge.

-3 letters: eger, ergs, errs, eses, gees, gree, rees, regs, seer, sees, segs, sere, sers.

-4 letters: ere, erg, err, ers, ess, gee, ree, reg, res, see, seg, ser.

-5 letters: er, es, re.

+1 letter: greasers, resurges.

+2 letters: engrosser, gesturers, presagers, regisseur, registers, regressed, regresses, regressor, resigners, surgeries.

+3 letters: degreasers, engrossers, estrangers, mergansers, progressed, progresses, redressing, regardless, regisseurs, registries, regressing, regression, regressive, regressors, repressing, retrogress, ryegrasses, sniggerers, staggerers, swaggerers.

+4 letters: ambergrises, enregisters, ergosterols, greenswards, misregister, peppergrass, prestorages, progressive, reasserting, regressions, reregisters, restressing, resurgences, stereograms, supersinger, verdigrises.

+5 letters: bromegrasses, derepressing, geopressured, gooseberries, greaseproofs, irregardless, mastersinger, misregisters, overdressing, preregisters, prestressing, progressives, readdressing, reexpressing, regardlessly, regressively, regressivity, reprocessing, resegregates, retiringness, retrogressed, retrogresses, scaremongers, serigraphers, serigraphies, slaughterers, stereographs, sugarberries, supercargoes, supercharges, supersingers, supersurgeon, transgressed, transgresses.