Definition of Retrogresses

1. Verb. (third-person singular of retrogress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retrogresses

1. retrogress [v] - See also: retrogress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrogresses

retrograde metamorphosis
retrograde motion
retrograde neurotransmitter
retrograde pyelography
retrograded
retrogradely
retrogrades
retrograding
retrogradingly
retrography
retrogreen
retrogreening
retrogress
retrogressed
retrogresses (current term)
retrogressing
retrogression
retrogressions
retrogressive
retrogressively
retrohippocampal
retrohyoid bursa
retroinguinal space
retroinhibition
retroiridian
retrojection
retrojector
retrojet

Literary usage of Retrogresses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"... of an unrequited unconscious homosexuality, and that in such cases the libido retrogresses to the homosexual plane. Such a mechanism occurs when the ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"Some individuals are primarily insusceptible, and in some the growth develops slowly, and eventually retrogresses. The latter fail ordinarily to develop a ..."

3. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"At times considerably extensive local infiltration may follow the injection which, however, retrogresses within a short time and the general condition of ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"... progresses towards a higher type, or, last of all, it backslides and retrogresses. As the first condition, that of stability, is, as already noted, ..."

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