Retrogress

Definitions: Retrogress

Retrogress

Verb

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

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

Etymology: Retrogress \Re"tro*gress\, noun. [Compare to Latin retrogressus.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Retrogress

Synonyms: fall back (v), lapse (v), recidivate (v), regress (v), relapse (v), retrograde (v). (additional references)

Antonym: progress (v). (additional references)

Language		Translations for "retrogress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkoj prapa (retrograde), keqësohem (fall away, fall off, retrograde, worsen). (various references)

Bulgarian		отивам назад. (various references)

Farsi		پس رفتن (Recede, Regress, Retire, Retrograde), ترقی معکوس کردن , بقهقرارفتن (Retrograde), برگشت (Back, Backstroke, Lapse, Refluence, Regress, Regression, Relapse, Repercussion, Return, Reversal, Revert, Veer). (various references)

German		zurücktreten (abdicate, back out, come second, decline, diminish, fade, fall back, go down, kick back, recede, rescind, resign, step back, step down, subside, to recede, to rescind, to retire, to retrogress, to step back, withdraw). (various references)

Greek		παλινδρομώ (regress), οπισθοδρομώ (recoil, regress, retreat, retrograde, throw back). (various references)

Hungarian		visszaesik (fall back, to ebb, to fall back, to lapse back, to recidivate, to relapse, to retrograde). (various references)

Manx		goll ergooyl (get back, recede, recession, retire, retreat, retrogression, reverse; neap tide, setback, tergiversation, withdrawal). (various references)

Pig Latin		etrogressray

Portuguese		retroceder (fall back on, flinch, recede, regress, retreat, retrograde, revert, run back, set back, shrink, subside), degenerar (degenerate, derogate, deteriorate, retrograde, run wild), decair (decay, decline, ebb, run down, sag). (various references)

Romanian		regresa (go back, regress), se strica (addle, break up, corrupt, decay, deteriorate, fester, go bad, go phut, ret, spoil, turn). (various references)

Russian		регрессировать (regress, retrograde). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nazadovati (go back, regress). (various references)

Spanish		retrogradar (retrograde), retroceder por (blench, boggle), empeorar (aggravate, deteriorate, fall away, fall off, go to the bad, worsen), degenerar (bastardize, degenerate), decaer (decay, decline, declive, fail, fall away, fall off, go down, molder, moulder). (various references)

Swedish		gå tillbaka (ascend, hark back, head back, recad, recede, regress). (various references)

Turkish		yozlaşmak (bastardize, degenerate), ters yönde dönmek (retrograde, reverse), kötüleşmek (deteriorate, get worse, go down, retrograde, sink, worsen), geriye gitmek, bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset). (various references)

Ukranian		рухатися назад (retrograde), регресувати (regress, retrograde). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "retrogress": retrogressed, retrogresses, retrogressing, retrogression, retrogressions, retrogressive, retrogressively. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "retrogress" (pronounced 'Re"tro*gress'): Congress, Negress, Ogress, tigress. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-o-r-r-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: regressor, resorters, restorers.
	-2 letters: resorter, restorer, restores, retrorse.
	-3 letters: grosser, regress, regrets, resorts, resters, restore, rosters, sorters, stereos, terrors.
	-4 letters: egests, egress, egrets, ergots, eroses, errors, esters, geests, gestes, gorses, greets, ogress, reests, regret, rerose, resets, resort, rester, retore, retros, rogers, rosets, roster, serest, serges, setose, sorest, sorter, steers, stereo, steres, stores, terror, terser.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-o-r-r-r-s-s-t"
	+2 letters: retrogressed, retrogresses.
	+3 letters: agroforesters, retrogressing, retrogression, retrogressive.
	+4 letters: agroforestries, retrogressions, tergiversators.
	+5 letters: reregistrations, retrogressively.
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