Synonyms of the word

retrogress

• v. (intransitive) To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress.
• v. (intransitive) To go backwards; to retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To return to bad behaviour; to relapse.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

lapse

• n. A temporary failure; a slip.
• n. A decline or fall in standards.
• n. A pause in continuity.
• n. An interval of time between events.
• n. A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
• n. (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer…
• n. (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator,…
• n. (theology) A fall or apostasy.
• v. (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
• v. (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
• v. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
• v. (intransitive) To become void.
• v. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence,…

recidivate

• v. (intransitive) To return to criminal behaviour; to relapse.

regress

• n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
• n. The power or liberty of passing back.
• n. In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
• v. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
• v. (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

relapse

• v. (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.
• v. To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
• n. The act or situation of relapsing.
• n. (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement.
• n. (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.

retrograde

• adj. Directed backwards, retreating; reverting especially inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement…
• adj. Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
• adj. (astronomy, of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
• adj. (geology) Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
• n. A degenerate person.
• n. (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last and…
• v. (intransitive) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
• v. (intransitive, astronomy) To show retrogradation.

retrovert

• v. To turn back.

return

• v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
• v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
• v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
• v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
• v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
• v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
• v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
• v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
• v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
• v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
• v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
• v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
• n. The act of returning.
• n. A return ticket.
• n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
• n. An answer.
• n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
• n. Gain or loss from an investment.
• n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
• n. (computing) A carriage return character.
• n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
• n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
• n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
• n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
• n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
• n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

revert

• n. One who, or that which, reverts.
• n. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another.
• n. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
• n. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier…
• v. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
• v. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
• v. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
• v. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
• v. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
• v. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters…
• v. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
• v. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
• v. (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
• v. (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, often India) To reply; to come back.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + …, where one variable y is expressed…

worsen

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.