regress
1. to return to a previous and less advanced or worse state, condition, or way…
Meaning of
regress
in English
regress
verb
formal
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regress
verb
[I]
(
RETURN TO WORSE STATE
)
She
suffered
brain
damage
from the
car
accident
and regressed
to
the
mental
age
of a five-year-old.
He says the
city
has regressed in
terms
of
participation
in
recycling
.
Compare
It’s
almost
like we’ve regressed to the 1950s.
When he
stopped
playing
sports
he regressed to
old
habits
and
became
more
distant
.
In some
areas
, such as writing
skills
among
middle
school
students
,
performance
seriously
regressed.
Deteriorating and making worse
regress
verb
[I]
(
GET BETTER
)
medical
specialized
Following
removal
of the
tumour
, all the
symptoms
regressed.
The
disease
may regress if the
patient
stops
smoking
.
At this
stage
, her
clinical
symptoms
had regressed, her
convulsions
had
stopped
and her
activity
level
,
muscle
tone
, and
reflexes
were
normal
.
The lipoma regressed
relatively
rapidly
until
symptoms
had
completely
disappeared
.
They will be
treated
as
long
as
their
disease
is
stable
or regressing.
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(Definition of
regress
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regress
verb
us
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Our
team
improved
in the second
half
, while
our
opponents
regressed.
Learning a
language
requires
regression to
childlike
simplicity
.
(Definition of
regress
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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Examples
of
regress
Table 1 reports this significant relation by regressing the absolute value of returns on volume data for observed as well as simulated data.
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Two simple tests for multicollinearity are: (i)
regress
each independent variable on the remaining independent variables.
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The final model, regressed the dependent variable (life satisfaction) onto the mediator (environmental mastery) and the independent variables.
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Next, we conducted logistic regression analyses in which each of the four young adult offspring outcomes was regressed on the residualized family circumstance variables.
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We then derived a linear factor score and regressed it on each raw-score depression scale.
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In the first model, mortality risk was regressed only on the two early-retirement measures.
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Results indicated that learners made significant collocation improvement immediately after the online practice but regressed later.
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Sound levels at the time of testing were regressed against reading comprehension and annoyance within the high noise sample.
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She stresses how much she wants to reject the thinking behind terms such as ‘ winners and losers, centers and margins, progress and
regress
‘ (p. 5).
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Controlling for soil quality with regional dummies, we regressed the biomass density on annual rainfall in the villages for which biomass density data were available.
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Even if we can find a way to halt the
regress
, the prospect is disturbing.
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In order to test this hypothesis, we divided our analysis into two parts, regressing political variables against inflation rates for the 1970s and 1980s separately.
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This produces three separate equations, in which measures of factional influence and control variables are regressed on to each candidate’s share of the vote.
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Specific weight measured with the standard procedure was regressed against the weight of grain filling the reduced-volume chondrometer.
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Missing sensitivity scores were generated by substituting values derived from a regression equation in which sensitivity was regressed on the global sensitivity ratings.
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