Synonyms of the word

retrogression

• n. A deterioration or decline to a previous state.
• n. (biology) A return to a less complex condition.

degeneration

• n. (uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
• n. (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished…
• n. (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular…
• n. (countable) A thing that has degenerated.

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.

regression

• n. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
• n. An action of travelling back in time.
• n. (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act…
• n. (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a…
• n. (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable…
• n. (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
• n. (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.

retroversion

• n. (medicine) The state or condition of being retroverted.

reversal

• n. The state of being reversed.
• n. An instance of reversing.
• n. A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
• adj. Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

reversion

• n. The action of reverting something.
• n. The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal.
• n. The fact of being turned the reverse way.
• n. The action of turning something the reverse way.
• n. (law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
• n. (law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
• n. (law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
• n. The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
• n. The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
• n. A sum payable on a person's death.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

transformation

• n. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
• n. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
• n. (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of…
• n. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived…
• n. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if…
• n. (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist…

transmutation

• n. (obsolete) Change, alteration.
• n. The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
• n. (alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base…
• n. (physics) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.