Meanings of retrogress in English

We don't stand still or retrogress; we keep going on and up.

The pituitary, too, begins to retrogress after the period of maturity.

There are species which are arrested, there are some that retrogress.

Would I could retrogress over the devious and enchanting itinerary.

Along this line of comprehensive scientific control the world has to go or it will retrogress, it will muddle and rot....

The Chinese government is retrogressing to the dark ages with their recent media regulations.

And all who were drilled for war, were instead of progressing in virtue, retrogressing into corruption.

Yet Ireland has lost her population and retrogressed.

They had retrogressed as far as the "injine"-the"steam injine"-whenAllison finally made himself heard.

Results: The renal function of diabetic rats was significantly retrogressed when compared with that of control rats.

But with the new order this was hardly possible, and civilization, in this respect, seemed to be retrogressing.

Jimmy would have admitted he was no artist; but he didn't enjoy retrogressing to his uncle's selection-fingerpaints.

He was retrogressing down the corridors of time, being drained of knowledge and experience as he swept back toward his childhood.

"So the world has retrogressed during the past four thousand years," mused she sadly.

The floor was covered with linoleum of which the black and white chess-board pattern had long since retrogressed with usage into an uninspiring blur.

If the thymus retrogresses after the second year, what takes its place as a brake upon the forward driving impulses of the other endocrines?