0 present participle of regress
1 to return to a previous and less advanced or worse state, condition, or way of behaving:
2 (of an illness or its symptoms (= effects)) to become less severe:
It's almost like we've regressed to the 1950s.
When he stopped playing sports he regressed to old habits and became more distant.
In some areas, such as writing skills among middle school students, performance seriously regressed.
At this stage, her clinical symptoms had regressed, her convulsions had stopped and her activity level, muscle tone, and reflexes were normal.
The lipoma regressed relatively rapidly until symptoms had completely disappeared.
They will be treated as long as their disease is stable or regressing.
In order to test this hypothesis, we divided our analysis into two parts, regressing political variables against inflation rates for the 1970s and 1980s separately.
Regressing to models of decaying exponentials led to improved quality in the synthesis of several of the percussive tracks.
