Definitions for regress

regress re·gress

Spelling: [verb ri-gres; noun ree-gres]
IPA: /verb rɪˈgrɛs; noun ˈri grɛs/

Regress is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in regress (eegrrss).

Definitions for regress

noun

  1. the act of going back; return.
  2. the right to go back.
  3. backward movement or course; retrogression.

verb (used without object)

  1. to move backward; go back.
  2. to revert to an earlier or less advanced state or form.

Origin of regress

1325-75; Middle English regresse (noun) Latin regressus a returning, going back, equivalent to re- re- + -gred-, combining form of gradī to step, walk, go + -tus suffix

Examples for regress

My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and regress;—said I well?

When panic sets in, they regress completely and start ordering up things that are technical flops, too.

Age is for retreat, for regress toward a former day; it would say with the ancient poet, "Return unto thy rest, O my soul."

When it does, Bralove said, the patient can regress in measureable ways, turning to drugs or alcohol for solace.

They regress: they play with toys (fancy cars, watches, laptops).

At every step there has been progress, but there has also been regress.

But at around 12 months, B. seemed to regress, and by age 2, he had fully retreated into his own world.

Or do I step away from the remote and regress, becoming the quaint sort of character who watches only one episode at a time?

Most of them will be shorter, however, and tend to regress toward the racial average.

For the member at which we have discontinued our division still admits a regress to many more parts contained in the object.

Word Value for regress
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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