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| re·gress [ ri gréss ] |
verb (past and past participle re·gressed, present participle re·gress·ing, 3rd person present singular re·gress·es) |
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1. intransitive verb return to earlier worse condition: to return to an earlier and less advanced, less healthy, or generally worse state from a more advanced, healthier, or generally better one
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2. intransitive verb go back: to move backward
  regress in time
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3. transitive and intransitive verb psychology go back to earlier period psychologically: to go back to an earlier emotional state and exhibit the type of behavior associated with it, or cause somebody to do this
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4. transitive verb parapsychology supposedly make somebody recall earlier lives: to cause somebody to think of and describe supposed earlier lifetimes while under hypnosis
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5. intransitive verb statistics tend toward mean: to tend toward a statistical mean
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noun (plural re·gress·es) |
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1. movement backward: a going backward, especially from a more advanced or better state to a less advanced or worse one
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2. logic reasoning from effect to cause: a process of reasoning backward from effects to their causes
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| [Early 16th century. < Latin regress-, past participle of regredi "move backward" < gradi "to walk"] |
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| re·gres·sor noun |
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