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Meanings of regress in English

Catalan
retrocés

Returning to a former state.

        retrocés
        Portuguese
        reverter
        Catalan
        retornar
        Spanish
        regresar

        Go back to a previous state.

              reverter
              Catalan
              retrocedir
              Spanish
              retrogradar

              Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.

                  retrocedir

                  Go back to bad behavior.

                        Usage of regress in English
                        1
                        With Toynbee in mind, I let my thoughts regress to hunter-gatherer times.
                        Analog sff, december 2009
                        2
                        An important distinction, however, exists between the dynamical and the mathematical regress.
                        The Critique of Pure Reason
                        3
                        Then I started to regress, failing on moves I'd had on lockdown.
                        Climbing Magazine
                        4
                        People can quickly lose mental faculties and even regress to mental retardation.
                        The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a...
                        5
                        Otherwise Europe will regress to a dark past we thought gone for ever.
                        The Guardian
                        6
                        This will determine if we're going to progress or regress as a society.
                        The Irish Times
                        7
                        The atom provides a natural terminator to the Crumboblious Cutlets type of regress.
                        The god delusion
                        8
                        Sometimes the benefits of evolution are debatable, and sometimes progress is clearly regress.
                        The new yorker
                        9
                        Clinical symptoms of Th1 mediated autoimmune diseases regress in many patients during pregnancy.
                        Pubmed
                        10
                        And yet, Sunday had threatened to regress into literally a non-event.
                        The Guardian
                        11
                        The regress in this case is decisively terminated by the atom.
                        The god delusion
                        12
                        The day we stop feeding them we will regress, not progress.
                        The Guardian
                        13
                        God presents an infinite regress from which he cannot help us to escape.
                        The god delusion
                        14
                        Cardiac abnormalities are frequent during the acute stage but regress gradually.
                        Pubmed
                        15
                        Verily I say, the human soul is exalted above all egress and regress.
                        Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
                        16
                        Congenital cutaneous juvenile xanthogranulomas with or without systemic involvement spontaneously regress.
                        Pubmed
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                        Translations for regress
                        Portuguese
                        reverter
                        Regress through the time
                        Regress across language varieties
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