Regress

[rɪ'gres] or [rɪ'ɡrɛs]

Definition

(noun.) the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.

(verb.) get worse or fall back to a previous condition.

(verb.) go back to a statistical means.

Typed by Hannah--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".

(n.) The power or liberty of passing back.

(v. i.) To go back; to return to a former place or state.

Inputed by Gracie

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Return, retrocession, reflux, retrogression, refluence, ebb.

Editor: Nat

Definition

n. passage back: return: power of returning: re-entry.—v.i. to go back: to return to a former place or state: (astron.) to move from east to west.—n. Regres′sion act of going back or returning.—adj. Regress′ive going back: returning.—adv. Regress′ively in a regressive manner: by return.

Edited by Aaron