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verb-intransitive. To fall or slide back into a former state.

verb-intransitive. To regress after partial recovery from illness.

verb-intransitive. To slip back into bad ways; backslide.

n. A falling back into a former state, especially after apparent improvement.

v. To fall back again.

v. To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.

n. The act or situation of relapsing.

n. One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.

verb-intransitive. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.

verb-intransitive. 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.

verb-intransitive. To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.

n. A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.

n. One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.

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.

n. A sliding or falling back, particularly into a former evil state.

n. One who has refallen into vice or error; specifically, one who returns into error after having recanted it.

n. In medicine, the return of a disease or symptom during or directly after convalescence. See recrudescence.

v. deteriorate in health

n. a failure to maintain a higher state

v. go back to bad behavior

"There was no looking at watches, no stifled yawning, no uneasy change of position, no watching the clock; strangers visiting the chapel listened, at first, from real interest, with a feeling that by-and-by they would relapse into their usual listlessness, but before they had time to _relapse_, behold the sermon was done."

relapsed    relapses    relapsing   

turn    change state    retrovert    regress    revert    turn back    return   

apostatize    apostasy   

backslide    backsliding    backslider    regress    slide    fall    revert    weaken    recidivate    regression   

Japs    Lapps    apps    caps    chaps    claps    collapse    craps    elapse    flaps   

recurrence    lapse    illness    breakdown    outbreak    epidemic    incidence    dehydration    schism    indisposition