Definition of "regress"

regress

/ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural regresses
1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
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  Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
  1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books
2. The power or liberty of passing back.
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  Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
3. (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
verb
third-person singular simple present regresses, present participle regressing, simple past and past participle regressed
1. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
  1. (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
2. (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.(clarification of this definition is needed)
3. (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
4. (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
5. (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
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  They regressed me, putting me under hypnosis. Then, through the hypnosis, they found out that our car was abducted right off the road and into a craft.
  2018, Michael Brein, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness

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