regress
/ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/ · noun
Meaning
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
- To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- To move in the retrograde direction.
- To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
- To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
Etymology / origin
(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”). Doublet of regressus.
- regressus(Latin)→
- regress (English)
- Relations: uder
Related words
Descendant words
- regresar(Ido) (bor)
- regressar(Portuguese) (cog)
- regresar(Spanish) (cog)
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