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recidivate collapse

backslide collapse

slip back collapse

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

lag behind collapse

fall behind collapse

retrocede 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"

fall through collapse: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"

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

retrogress collapse

fall flat collapse

lose ground collapse

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

fall in collapse: to take one's place in a military formation or line; "Troops fall in!"

go back collapse: belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years"

fall short collapse: fail to meet (expectations or standards)

alight upon collapse

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

light upon collapse

run across 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"

come up against collapse

come upon collapse

capsize collapse: overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!"

fro collapse

crystallize collapse: cause to take on a definite and clear shape; "He tried to crystallize his thoughts"; assume crystalline form; become crystallized; cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form; "crystallize minerals"

back up collapse: make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy; "You'd better back up these files!"; move backwards from a certain position; "The bully had to back down"

slide back collapse

sink back collapse

return to collapse

aft collapse: at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about"

take shape collapse

bite the dust collapse

cotton to collapse

astern collapse: (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"; stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at half speed"

rally round collapse

hit upon collapse

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!"

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