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▸ verb: (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
▸ verb: (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence.
▸ verb: To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
▸ noun: The act or situation of relapsing.
▸ noun: (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
▸ noun: (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
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regress,
retrogress,
reversion,
recidivate,
recidivism,
backsliding,
lapsing,
fall back,
get worse,
reverting,
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