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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.

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Examples for "return"
Examples for "return"
1
We'll return early next year with a new company and new toys.
Wired
2
No difference was found according to return to work 1 year postsurgery.
Pubmed
3
I think we need an opportunity to return home at one point.
Ebony
4
Air New Zealand is currently operating 16 return international services a week.
Radio NZ
5
She will return to work in Paris early in the new year.
The Irish Times
1
Well, I think I will actually revert to the original question actually.
The new yorker
2
Cardiff will revert to their traditional blue home kit with immediate effect.
The Irish Times
3
IDM also said all rights to Uvidem revert back to the company.
Reuters
4
To be sure, returns revert to mean but often not on schedule.
Reuters
5
But in the affairs of the fire-place Mr. Thorne would not revert.
Barchester Towers
1
But he was too far out to sea now to turn back.
Sons of the Oak
2
There came no new disaster followed by an order to turn back.
The Great Book of Amber
3
She'd meant to turn back, find him, ask if she could help.
Cibola Burn
4
Romney came into the debate under strong pressure to turn back Gingrich.
Reuters
5
Wasn't it more absurd to fail, to turn back, than to continue?
Zeitoun
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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