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regress

[v. ri-gres; n. ree-gres]

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verb (used without object)

to move backward; go back.

to revert to an earlier or less advanced state or form.

noun

the act of going back; return.

the right to go back.

backward movement or course; retrogression.

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English regresse (noun) < Latin regressus a returning, going back, equivalent to re- re- + -gred-, combining form of gradī to step, walk, go + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > ss

Related forms

re·gres·sor, noun

Synonyms
1. revert, retreat, backslide, lapse, ebb.

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Its vision of modernity reflects not progress but regress.

For some of these students, they regress to behaviors that worked for them when they wanted something from their parents.

What these amateur statisticians have in fact done, is regress two positive trends on each other.

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Its vision of modernity reflects not progress but regress.

For some of these students, they regress to behaviors that worked for them when they wanted something from their parents.

What these amateur statisticians have in fact done, is regress two positive trends on each other.

It's an infinite regress, the same kind of regress for one arguing the existence of god.

Here it is on the cusp of disappearing into an infinite regress.

Untrained, these breeds may regress into an aggressive stance.

Patience, perseverance and above all the courage to progress not regress and unravel.

We can only hope that they regress when they ingest.

Experimental treatments are emerging that seem to cause even the deadliest form of skin cancer to regress.

It never ceases to amaze me how people can regress so completely into abject denial.

Here is an infinite regress of detail that astonishes us with its variety, its complexity and its strange beauty.

One reason to question radical atomism is that it must eventually lead either to infinite regress or to a brick wall.

It is extremely hard to see the current severe global recession as the result of technological regress.

It's that damned old homunculus problem and an infinite regress.

By chance, it is likely to regress whether or not they are treated.

It would be interesting to regress the data by income levels, educational levels, and red and blue states.

Here is an infi nite regress of detail that astonishes us with its variety, its complexity and its strange beauty.

The death of the euro may regress these positive changes.

Dedifferentiation is a process by which specialized cells regress to a more basic, less specific form.

Transformers fans have a chance to regress themselves to the desperate happiness of childhood:.

The screwdriver, to regress to the subject, will probably be the last common hand tool in this increasingly digital world.

At the bedside, grown children and their parents can regress to childhood battles.

Now his lyrics are either coded with warning and regret, or they regress to a purer and more childish form of complaint.

Seeking to regress to a kind of childish innocence, he even headed one page of the.

Psst, don't tell anyone but those in the know are suggesting we're going to regress all the way back to cowries.

We know that tens of thousands of parents saw their normally developing children regress into autism following vaccinations.

He's going to bounce, in racetrack parlance, or regress after running the best race of his short life.

Computer science will never regress to a simple ecosystem of i-cetera.

When healthy children suddenly and dramatically regress into autism following routine vaccinations, it's called a coincidence.

They do not regress on their own and may multiply and cause considerable obstruction.

Chances are the champion will regress toward the mean and another will have its glory day.

Here's a kid-friendly place that won't cause you to regress.

We, as a people, need to move forward and not regress.

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regress

—vb
1.	(intr) to return or revert, as to a former place, condition, or mode of behaviour
2.	(tr) statistics to measure the extent to which (a dependent variable) is associated with one or more independent variables

—n
3.	the act of regressing
4.	movement in a backward direction; retrogression
5.	logic a supposed explanation each stage of which requires to be similarly explained, as saying that knowledge requires a justification in terms of propositions themselves known to be true

[C14: from Latin regressus a retreat, from regredī to go back, from re- + gradī to go]

re'gressor

—n

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regress

late 14c. (n.), "act of going back," from L. regressus "a return," from regress-, pp. stem of regredi "to go back," from re- "back" + gradi "to step, walk" (see grade). The verb meaning "to move backward" is recorded from 1823; the psychological sense of "to return to an earlier

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stage of life" is attested from 1926. Regressive is recorded from 1630s; in ref. to taxation, it is attested from 1889.

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