relapse
IPA: riɫˈæps
noun
- The act or situation of relapsing.
- (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
- (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
verb
- (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
- (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence.
- To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
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Examples of "relapse" in Sentences
- He died from a relapse of the disease.
- The number of relapses were about the same.
- In the summer of 1898, he suffered a sudden relapse.
- Eather would suffer a series of relapses of the disease.
- It is the major cause of relapse in cancer and leukaemia.
- The natural history of myeloma is of relapse following treatment.
- Then we relapsed into the silence of mourning and the bitterness of loss.
- It slows down the progression of the illness and reduces the relapse rate.
- No study has found them to be efficacious treatments in preventing relapse.
- It was later learned that he was in the midst of a drug relapse at the time.
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