Meaning & use
retrogress
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To move backward or return to a former, typically worse, state or condition.
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Without proper treatment, his condition began to retrogress rapidly.
Critics warned that the new policy would cause the economy to retrogress.
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From Latin retrogradi, combining retro- (backward) and gradi (to step); closely related to regress but slightly more formal.
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