retrogress
Example Sentences
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Not to struggle is to retrogress, to collapse, to go revisionist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir: Premarital Murdock flagrantly contradicts his own anthropology and science when he advocates that we should retrogress thousands of years into the primitive "gland-motivated" society.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it must be a slow, and occasionally, an interrupted progress, after a sad retrogress of nearly twelve years.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
That certain animals degenerate or retrogress in their development is susceptible of ready and familiar illustration.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
The pituitary, too, begins to retrogress after the period of maturity.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
