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retrogress

/re-truh-gres, re-truh-gres/US // ˌrɛ trəˈgrɛs, ˈrɛ trəˌgrɛs //UK // (ˌrɛtrəʊˈɡrɛs) //

倒退,倒退的情况,倒退的情况下,倒退是指

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
    • : to move backward.

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Examples

  • This was truly consequential, but it was less a matter of making progress than of preventing retrogress.

  • In extremely exceptional instances the disease, after involving a small part, may retrogress and recovery take place.

  • At times the patches retrogress, involution taking place with or without slight sieve-like atrophy or scarring.

  • That certain animals degenerate or retrogress in their development is susceptible of ready and familiar illustration.

  • But it must be a slow, and occasionally, an interrupted progress, after a sad retrogress of nearly twelve years.

  • What had caused the man to retrogress Luis and Luise Obispo?