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

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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

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

resort to collapse

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

reappear collapse: appear again; "The sores reappeared on her body"; "Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago"

recur collapse: happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"; return in thought or speech to something

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

lag behind collapse

fall behind collapse

come again collapse

retrocede collapse

reverberate collapse: treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberating furnace; "reverberate ore"; be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"; have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"

invert collapse: make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted"

take to collapse: develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation; "She took to drink"; "Men take to the military trades"

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"

react collapse: undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"; show a response or a reaction to something; act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say"

hark back collapse: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

retrogress collapse

resound collapse: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"

inverse collapse: something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"; reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect; opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity ; "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"

look to collapse: turn one's interests or expectations towards; "look to the future"; "this method looks to significant wavings"

lose ground collapse

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

turn to collapse: direct one's interest or attention towards; go into; "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "People turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium"

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

transpose collapse: a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix; change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"; put (a piece of music) into another key; transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality

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"

repeat collapse: an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"; to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"; to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request"; do over; "They would like to take it over again"

resume collapse: take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations"; return to a previous location or condition; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it"; assume anew; "resume a title"; "resume an office"; "resume one's duties"

turn back collapse: turn inside out or upside down

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!"

refer to collapse

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