Meaning

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
2. The power or liberty of passing back.
3. (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
4. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
5. (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
6. (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
7. (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
8. (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.

Example Sentences

Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.

Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.

When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.

They regressed me, putting me under hypnosis. Then, through the hypnosis, they found out that our car was abducted right off the road and into a craft.

Word Forms

• regresses
• regressing
• regressed

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