relaps'. A sliding or falling back, particularly into a former bad state, either of body or of morals; as a relapse into a disease from a convalescent state; a relapse into a vicious course of life. [In the sense of a person relapsing, not used.]
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1. relaps'. [Latin relapsus, relabor, to slide back; re and labor, to slide.]
2. To slip or slide back; to return.
3. To fall back; to return to a former state or practice; as, to relapse into vice or error after amendment.
4. To fall back or return from recovery or a convalescent state; as, to relapse into a fever.
1. A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
2. One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
1. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
2. To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
One that relapses into vice or error.
One who relapses.
Reversion Roget’s Thesaurus §145
N. reversion, return, revulsion, turning point, turn of the tide, status quo ante bellum, calm before a storm, alternation, inversion, recoil, retreat, regression, retrogression, restoration, relapse, recidivism, atavism, vicinism, v, revert, turn back, regress, relapse, recoil, retreat, restore, undo, unmake, turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale
Adv. a rebours
Regression Roget’s Thesaurus §283
N. regress, regression, retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction, reculade, retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration, recession, recess, crab-like motion, refluence, reflux, backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil) 277, flip-flop, volte- face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march, veering, tergiversation, recidivation|, backsliding, fall, deterioration, recidivism, recidivity, reversal, relapse, turning point
V. recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire, retrograde, retrocede, back out, back down, balk, crawfish*, crawl*, withdraw, rebound, go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back, lose ground, fall astern, drop astern, backwater, put about, backtrack, take the back track, veer round, double, wheel, countermarch, ebb, regurgitate, jib, shrink, shy, turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon, retrace one's steps, dance the back step, sound a retreat, beat a retreat, go home
Adj. receding, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient, crab-like, balky, reactionary
Adv. back, backwards, reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours
Phr. revenons a nos moutons, as you were
Relapse Roget’s Thesaurus §661
N. relapse, lapse, falling back, # retrogradation, deterioration, backsliding, recidivation |, recidivism, recidivity, recrudescence
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