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regress

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

  2. The power or liberty of passing back.

  3. In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

Synonymsretrogress
verb
  1. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.

  2. To move from east to west.

  3. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

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

Synonymsbackslide
Antonymsadvance, proceed, progress

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