Meaning & use
regress
To return to an earlier, less developed stage or condition after having made progress.
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Without practice, his French skills began to regress within a few months.
The patient seemed to regress after stopping the therapy sessions.
A note on using this word
Regress implies a decline back toward an earlier state, and is also a statistical term for analyzing relationships between variables.
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