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relapse

Roget category 661

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#661. Relapse

noun

relapse, lapsefalling back etc. v. — retrogradation etc. (retrogression) 283deterioration etc. 659.
[Return to, or recurrence of a bad state] backsliding, recidivationrecidivism, recidivityrecrudescence.

verb

relapse, lapsefall back, slide back, sink backreturnretrograde etc. 283recidivatefall off again etc. 659.

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