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▸ noun: The power or liberty of passing back.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ verb: (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
▸ verb: (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
▸ verb: (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
▸ verb: (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
▸ verb: (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
Similar:
retrogress,
revert,
reversion,
relapse,
return,
retrogression,
retroversion,
regression,
turn back,
retrograde,
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infinite,
vicious,
endless,
indefinite,
empirical,
explanatory,
causal,
demonstrative,
technical,
temporal,
potential
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