Regress vs. Retrogress — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Regress and Retrogress
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Regress
To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state
When I left the country, my ability to speak the language regressed.
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Retrogress
To return to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition.
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Regress
To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
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Retrogress
To go or move backward.
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Regress
To move backward or away from a reference point; recede
The seas regressed as the glaciers grew larger.
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Retrogress
(intransitive) To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress.
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Regress
To induce a state of regression in
Techniques to regress a patient under hypnosis.
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Retrogress
(intransitive) To go backwards; to retreat.
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Regress
The act of regressing, especially the returning to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
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Retrogress
(intransitive) To return to bad behaviour; to relapse.
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Regress
The act of reasoning backward from an effect to a cause or of continually applying a process of reasoning to its own results.
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Retrogress
A retrogression.
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Regress
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
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Retrogress
Retrogression.
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Regress
The power or liberty of passing back.
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Retrogress
Get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition
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Regress
In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
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Retrogress
Go back to bad behavior;
Those who recidivate are often minor criminals
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Regress
(intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
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Regress
To move from east to west.en
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Regress
To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
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Regress
To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.
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Regress
(transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
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Regress
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
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Regress
The power or liberty of passing back.
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Regress
To go back; to return to a former place or state.
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Regress
The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
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Regress
Returning to a former state
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Regress
Go back to a statistical means
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Regress
Go back to a previous state;
We reverted to the old rules
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Regress
Get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition
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Regress
Go back to bad behavior;
Those who recidivate are often minor criminals
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