regress

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Synonyms: egress, redress, repress, negress, regrets, degress, regrass

Antonyms: egress, redress, repress, negress, regrets, degress, regrass

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Noun

1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
2. The power or liberty of passing back.
3. The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

Verb

1. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
   • Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.
2. To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
   • Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.
3. To move in the retrograde direction.(clarification of this definition is needed)
4. To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
5. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
   • When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.
6. To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.

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