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slide back collapse

sink back collapse

return to collapse

fall behind collapse

recidivate collapse

fall from grace collapse: revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior; "The children fell from grace when they asked for several helpings of dessert"

go wrong collapse

retrocede collapse

slip back collapse

go astray collapse

recede collapse: become faint or more distant; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older"; move back and away from; "The enemy fell back"

revert collapse: undergo reversion, as in a mutation; go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"

err collapse: to make a mistake or be incorrect

retrogress collapse

lose ground collapse

fall back collapse: retreat; fall backwards and down; have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"

recidivism collapse: habitual relapse into crime

retrograde collapse: of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma; moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth; going from better to worse; go back over; "retrograde arguments"; move back; "The glacier retrogrades"; move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"; move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

relapse collapse: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

regress collapse: the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence; get worse or fall back to a previous condition; go back to a statistical means

backsliding collapse: a failure to maintain a higher state

pull back collapse: pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows"; move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!"

retroflex collapse: bent or curved backward; articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate; "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants"; bend or turn backward

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