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regress

/verb ri-gres; noun ree-gres/US // verb rɪˈgrɛs; noun ˈri grɛs //

退步,倒退,退行,回归

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to move backward; go back.
    • : to revert to an earlier or less advanced state or form.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of going back; return.
    • : the right to go back.
    • : backward movement or course; retrogression.

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Examples

  • But at around 12 months, B. seemed to regress, and by age 2, he had fully retreated into his own world.

  • When panic sets in, they regress completely and start ordering up things that are technical flops, too.

  • Or do I step away from the remote and regress, becoming the quaint sort of character who watches only one episode at a time?

  • When it does, Bralove said, the patient can regress in measureable ways, turning to drugs or alcohol for solace.

  • To suppose that a food is constituted by eating is to presuppose that eating eats eating, and so on in infinite regress.

  • Most of them will be shorter, however, and tend to regress toward the racial average.

  • So that one sex can neither progress nor can it regress by itself; but draws the other onward with it, or drags it back.

  • The keyhole was still their port of egress and regress, and it resembled the aperture of a beehive, on a sunny day in June.

  • Even though this cannot be literally true, they perhaps tend to regress into a dream-mood in thinking of and relating the stories.