intransitive verb. To return to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition.

intransitive verb. To go or move backward.

noun. Retrogradation; falling off; decline.

To move backward; retrograde.

noun. Retrogression.

verb. To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress.

verb. To go backwards; to retreat.

verb. To return to bad behaviour; to relapse.

verb. get worse or fall back to a previous condition

verb. go back to bad behavior

"And in 1985, when Grace Bumbry was a sensation as Bess in a Metropolitan Opera production, she slammed the opera: "I thought it beneath me, I felt I had worked far too hard, that we had come far too far to have to retrogress to 1935.""

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