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regress

Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/

The English word “regress” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
  2. The power or liberty of passing back.
  3. The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

verb

  1. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
  2. To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
  3. To move in the retrograde direction.
  4. To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
  5. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
  6. To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.

Etymology

(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”). Doublet of regressus.

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