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

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slide back collapse

sink back collapse

return to 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"

slip back collapse

backslide collapse

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

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

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

throwback collapse

fall behind collapse

recrudescence collapse: a return of something after a period of abatement; "a recrudescence of racism"; "a recrudescence of the symptoms"

retroaction collapse

reinstatement collapse: the act of restoring someone to a previous position; "we insisted on the reinstatement of the colonel"; the condition of being reinstated; "her reinstatement to her former office followed quickly"

retroflexion 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"

rehabilitation collapse: the restoration of someone to a useful place in society; the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises; vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation

rollback collapse: reducing prices back to some earlier level; the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw

sicken collapse: get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"; make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"; upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"

disenchantment collapse: freeing from false belief or illusions

retrogress collapse

sternway collapse

atavism collapse: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

reentry collapse: the act of entering again

lose ground collapse

reclamation collapse: the recovery of useful substances from waste products; rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; "the reclamation of delinquent children"; the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation

recession collapse: the act of ceding back; the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service; the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year

recidivism collapse: habitual relapse into crime

restitution collapse: getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"; the act of restoring something to its original state

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

recurrence collapse: happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring"

deteriorate collapse: become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated"

about face collapse

flip flop collapse

revulsion collapse

retrogression collapse

worsen collapse: grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"; make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain"

reversion collapse: turning in the opposite direction; a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation); (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)

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