regress

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

The power or liberty of passing back.

property lawThe right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence

Returning to a former state

To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.

psychologyTo re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.

“Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.”

astronomyTo move from east to west.

medicineTo reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.

statisticsTo 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.”

To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.

Go back to a statistical means

Go back to a previous state

“We reverted to the old rules”

Get worse or fall back to a previous condition