Regress is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REGRESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to go back
• return to a former or less developed state
• return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis
• calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable
• move in a retrograde direction
• revert to a former worse condition
• To go back; to return to a former place or state.
• go back to a statistical means
• go back to a previous state
• get worse or fall back to a previous condition
• go back to bad behavior
NOUN:
• the action of returning to a former or less developed state
• a series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g. defining something in terms of itself).
• The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. \"The progress or regress of man\".
• The power or liberty of passing back.
• the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
• returning to a former state
• return to a former and worse condition

Words related to REGRESS

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Words that contain REGRESS

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How to use REGRESS in a sentence

• As soon as this sub-ordination is ignored in practice, regress takes the place of progress.
• We have already said that progress in commerce may be regress in art or in religion or in morality.
• Kentucky had a system of regulating the egress and regress of slaves but never passed any law prohibiting their instruction.
• This gave me not only egress and regress, as it were, a back-way to my tent and to my storehouse, but gave me room to stow my goods.
• At every step there has been progress, but there has also been regress.
• Verily I say, the human soul is exalted above all egress and regress.
• This gave me not only egress and regress, as it were a back-way to my tent and to my storehouse, but gave me room to stow my goods.

Similar words containing GRES without suffix s and without prefix re

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