- recidivate as a verb:
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recidivate
verb
1 recidivate
Go back to bad behavior:
— Those who recidivate are often minor criminals.
synonyms: fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress.
Roget 661: relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return; retrograde etc. 283; recidivate; fall off again etc. 659.
Dutch: geraken, raken, terugvallen, vervallen
Moby thesaurus: backslide, cock, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, get behind, go backwards, go behind, have a relapse, jerk back, lapse, lapse back, lose ground, pull back, recede, recur to, regress ... show more.
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