Relapse

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  • intransitive verb. To return to a former state.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To become sicker after partial recovery from an illness.
  • intransitive verb. To recur. Used of an illness.
  • intransitive verb. To slip back into bad ways; backslide.
  • noun. A return to a former state, especially after apparent improvement.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To slip or slide back; return.
  • To fall back; return to a former bad state or practice; backslide: as, to relapse into vice or error after amendment.
  • To fall back from recovery or a convalescent state.
  • noun. A sliding or falling back, particularly into a former evil state.
  • noun. One who has refallen into vice or error; specifically, one who returns into error after having recanted it.
  • noun. In medicine, the return of a disease or symptom during or directly after convalescence. See recrudescence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
  • noun. One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
  • intransitive verb. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
  • intransitive verb. 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; ; -- sometimes in a good sense.
  • intransitive verb. To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To fall back again.
  • verb. To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.
  • noun. The act or situation of relapsing.
  • noun. One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. deteriorate in health
  • noun. a failure to maintain a higher state
  • verb. go back to bad behavior