Retrogress
verb (used without object)
1.
to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition:
to retrogress to infantilism.
2.
to move backward.
verb (intransitive)
1.
to go back to an earlier, esp worse, condition; degenerate or deteriorate
2.
to move backwards; recede
3.
(biology) to develop characteristics or features of lower or simpler organisms; degenerate
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