regress
IPA: rˈigrɛs
noun
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
verb
- (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
- (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
- (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
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Examples of "regress" in Sentences
- The system is rather regressing.
- It is not a regressive form of taxation.
- There is always the danger of regression.
- This was the first regressive palatalization.
- Please regress back the definition to the original.
- Anyway, the quality of this discussion is regressing.
- The regression equation for this paper is the following.
- Coherentism denies the soundness of the regression argument.
- It's making the history of the field unnecessarily regressive.
- All the regressive taxation on the Santror should be taken back.
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