Definitions

regress

[ri-gres, ree-gres] / rɪˈgrɛs, ˈri grɛs /

VERB

return to earlier way of doing things

Synonyms

STRONGEST

degenerate deteriorate ebb fall back fall off recede revert

STRONG

backslide lapse relapse retreat retrogress sink

WEAK

fall away go back lose ground roll back throw back turn back

Antonyms

STRONGEST

develop forge forward improve increase progress

STRONG

strengthen

WEAK

grow

Example Sentences

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Regress a second straight season, however, and I’ll be in the audience throwing tomatoes, too.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

There were also two awards for radio writing, with Radio 4's Pandemic, by John Dryden, winning the drama category and Matt Berry's I, Regress winning best radio comedy.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2012

In his first�and not initially successful�fantasy, The Pilgrim's Regress, he used Bunyan's device of a naive wayfarer beset by symbolic men and monsters.

From Time Magazine Archive

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