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Verb
▲
To return to a former or less developed state
revert
deteriorate
degenerate
lapse
ebb
relapse
retrogress
backslide
decline
return
wane
worsen
retreat
retrograde
subside
atrophy
crumble
decay
descend
devolve
drop
fall
recede
rot
sink
slump
drift back
fall off
go backwards
recidivate
retrocede
sink back
slip back
fall away
get worse
go downhill
fall back
go back
go to pot
lose ground
lose headway
move back
roll back
throw back
turn back
turn the clock back
go to the dogs
be on your last legs
fall apart at the seams
peter out
erode
wear down
disappear
tail off
melt away
abrade
consume
tire
fret
faint
quiet
settle
vanish
evaporate
devaluate
run low
soften
slow down
slack off
gnaw
destroy
drain
eat
disperse
rust
attenuate
pine
melt
nibble
slash
curb
check
grow dim
scour
fizzle out
bite
eat away
eat away at
bite at
gnaw away at
bite into
gnaw away
lighten
quell
oxidizeUS
calm down
restrain
lose edge
narrow down
cut down
dim
falter
tarnish
be abandoned
run down
bust
dissipate
evanesce
thin
bend
be forgotten
be disregarded
brood
fold
oxidiseUK
break apart
halt
weather
go to ruin
give way
grow faint
crumble away
deliquesce
trail off
become less
fall to bits
come apart
come to an end
ease off
wear off
burn through
fade out
wash away
burn into
fag out
wear
wear out
go into a decline
wear through
go off
rebate
modify
curtail
tail away
weary
succumb
decrement
peak
mope
moon
oxidate
come to bits
lose control
freak
come to pieces
peter
blur
become smaller
grow smaller
experience hardship
dematerialize
fly
flee
lose strength
canker
flake
etiolate
have a breakdown
freak out
hush
grow feeble
rarefy
evanish
clear
ease up
exhaust
liquefy
become unimportant
minimizeUS
relax
impoverish
cripple
minimiseUK
tremble
limp
come undone
crack up
pass off
poop out
vanish into thin air
tucker out
become less loud
dangle
run through
hang
bow
pass
cut
lose spirit
thin out
grow weaker
stoop
hang down
flow away
downgrade
mark down
elapse
discontinue
stale
rasp
drape
stop
finish
end
determine
expire
quit
conclude
terminate
cease
splinter
shatter
sigh
want
long
hunger
desire
fall steeply
deflate
discount
bate
rub
scrape
sling
slouch
suspend
lop
lean
hanker
yearn
suspire
deplete
lurch
topple
blight
hunch
pitch
reach a new low
loll
reach new low
keel over
sprawl
go stale
scratch
write off
fray
lower in price
devalorize
write down
lower in value
founder
fracture
teeter
snivel
ail
tucker
sorrow
grieve
despond
frazzle
use
corrade
grind
gall
chafe
become limp
become flaccid
break off
run out
wind up
dead-end
leave off
wink out
go dead
pack in
rupture
explode
become rusty
rub away
tire out
let down
devour
foul
dismember
separate
moldUS
disrupt
rive
fester
gutter
become worn
become threadbare
rub down
scuff
be worthless
use up
wear thin
bother
overwork
grind away
overuse
graze
tax
scrape off
jade
knock out
conk out
go soft
pine away
eat your heart out over
scrape away
sap
shiver
disunite
blow up
crumple
grind down
disband
disorganize
breakdown
divide
taint
compost
split
mouldUK
dismantle
sever
fly apart
disconnect
blow apart
detach
give out
wind down
chip away at
go belly-up
become weak
eat into
wash out
turn to dust
be smashed to smithereens
take apart
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“Such countries are not developing at all, but regressing.”
Verb
▲
To return to a former or less developed state
revert
return
retrogress
default
lapse
recur
resume
retrograde
backslide
change back
come back
go back
relapse
about-face
change
decline
degenerate
deteriorate
flip-flop
inverse
invert
mutate
pass
react
recrudesce
reexamine
reinvestigate
reoffend
reopen
restore
revisit
transpose
turn
lapse into
relapse into
be returned to
drift back into
fall back into
go back to
hark back
pass back
slide back
slip back
throw back
turn back
go over again
retrace your steps
fall off the wagon
take another look at
take a step back
take up where left off
take up where you left off
be once again in the possession of
go back to your old ways
return to
fall back
reoccur
Verb
▲
Withdraw to or from a particular place
superannuate
retire
decamp
depart
ebb
exit
go
part
pension
recede
relinquish
remove
repeal
rescind
resign
retreat
revoke
rusticate
secede
separate
surrender
withdraw
yield
absent oneself
deny oneself
draw back
fall back
get away
get off
give ground
give up work
give way
go away
go to bed
go to one's room
go to sleep
hand over
hit the sack
leave service
make vacant
pull back
pull out
put out to pasture
run along
seclude oneself
sever connections
stop working
take off
turn in
quit
vamoose
split
clear out
clear off
make oneself scarce
shove off
push off
scram
bail out
skedaddle
run away
flee
make tracks
cut out
scoot
fly
run off
walk out
scarper
vacate
get going
abandon
beat it
move
make off
set out
begone
bolt
back out
beat a retreat
set off
bug off
buzz off
escape
take a hike
get
abstract oneself
bug out
abdicate
book
start out
take leave
bail
hightail it
up sticks
bow out
push on
step along
check out
pike off
pack up
pack off
pike out
give up
get lost
peel off
dig out
sally forth
disappear
recoil
drop out
get out
make yourself scarce
light out
flit
be off
head off
abscond
take a powder
renounce
bog off
blow
slope off
stand down
pull out of
hightail
draw away
cut and run
move out
get under way
hit the road
quail
rack off
hit the trail
sling your hook
shrink
break camp
demit
back off
evacuate
withdraw from
run
desert
forsake
lose ground
do a disappearing act
drop
back out of
scat
shoo
take flight
start
hamba
voetsak
pop off
walk off
avaunt
say goodbye
hook it
naff off
on your bike
sod off
take a long walk on a short pier
throw in the towel
move along
move off
go jump in the lake
haul off
get along
be on your way
nick off
hop it
be off with you
go and jump in the lake
blench
take oneself
fall
clear
cede
make a move
pull
disengage
proceed
resign from
cower
get out of
eliminate
shrink back
retire from
stop participating in
take out
do a bunk
forgo
disengage from
shy away
abnegate
git
retract
refuse
step down from
pack in
emigrate
issue
vanish
beat a hasty retreat
terminate
migrate
sally
embark
waive
do a runner
separate oneself from
opt out
bow out of
break away
give notice
make a break for it
go forth
cease work
stand aside
sign off
pack your bags
make a start
skip off
hand in resignation
call it a day
remove oneself
take wing
hop the twig
push along
get stuffed
take yourself off
hang it up
duck out
get moving
hop the stick
run for it
range
cruise
kite
make like a tree and get out of here
make like a tree and leave
retrograde
back
regroup
retrocede
wend
lam
mosey
retreat from
fade away
backpedal
step back
move away
crawfish
quake
hotfoot it
make a quick exit
leg it
make a run for it
chuck
lose
make one's way
scrap
strike
scamper
skip
make for
skip out
renege on
stop
descend
dismount
come down
disembark
get down
climb off
alight
light
die
demise
end
decease
flatline
expire
perish
croak
succumb
have it away
fly the coop
peel out
make away
go from
decline
jack in
chuck in
give back
renounce the throne
kick in
conk out
pass on
kick off
peg out
pass away
exeunt
step out
scratch
extract
show a clean pair of heels
step aside
relinquish one's position
be lost
escape from
exit from
go offstage
stop participating
pluck out
be gone
make your escape
make your getaway
draw out
take the count
wriggle out
flake off
defect
elope
go your way
go and chase yourself
get out of my sight
straggle
transfer
cut
disclaim
do vanishing act
bid farewell
take one's leave
abjure
pass
hand in your notice
fold
resignate
divorce oneself from
capitulate
give up the ship
leave your job
end service
give up your job
sign away
step aside from
turn over
wash hands of
flinch
depart from
walk away from
throw in the sponge
give something a miss
make one's exit
head out
go away from
do a bunk from
flee from
slip out
give the slip
disappear from
slope off from
take yourself off from
be gone from
take your leave of
take French leave
move out of
fly from
decamp from
ride off
abscond from
run away from
go AWOL
bolt from
take oneself off from
set out from
absent oneself from
come away
head for
cringe
wince
journey
retreat to
resort
hie
process
drop behind
lag behind
fall behind
slow down
render
forswear
quitclaim
retire to
go to
adjourn to
draw
bag it
leave in the lurch
sell out
leave holding the bag
leave high and dry
squinch
depart for
set off for
withdraw to
remove to
jump back
exfiltrate
switch
detach
detach yourself
cop out
slink
huddle
boggle
grovel
spring back
shudder
scruple
crouch
start back
shrink away
jerk back
betake oneself to
take off for
keep aloof
ease out
keep apart
phase out
shut oneself away
break with
disaffiliate
repudiate
apostatize
separate from
reject
disaffiliate from
break away from
split with
defect from
sever relations with
break from
become independent
split from
drop out of
split off from
form a splinter group
have nothing more to do with
advance
absent
troop
set forth
blast off
slip away
march out
move on
make a break
hit the bricks
more ❯
Verb
▲
To back off or retreat
move away
retreat
flee
withdraw
bolt
escape
leave
recoil
retire
scram
skedaddle
split
vamoose
quit
beat it
back off
draw back
move back
run away
run off
back away
back out
clear out
fall back
give ground
go away
make off
pull back
pull out
take flight
turn tail
cut and run
drop back
hightail it
peel out
run for it
distance oneself
hook it
leg it
exit
clear off
absent oneself
make tracks
make oneself scarce
get away
shove off
scoot
push off
abscond
bail out
remove
go off
hightail
run along
flinch
get going
repair
set off
cringe
set out
take oneself off
make an exit
take a hike
abstract oneself
begone
disappear
betake oneself
part
start out
bug off
buzz off
get out
move
get off
go through
shoot through
get lost
slope off
get
take leave
make yourself scarce
up sticks
blow
desert
shrink away
check out
walk out
do a disappearing act
resign
absent yourself
adjourn
be off
start
take your leave
flit
duck
take it on the lam
hit the road
book
shirk
bail
avoid
scat
shun
secede
wince
push on
ebb
step along
get under way
move out
pack up
pack off
pike off
pike out
rack off
move along
hit the trail
bog off
make your escape
seclude oneself
break camp
blanch
go out
swerve
vanish
lam
duck out
grovel
scamper
shoo
dodge
peel off
hamba
voetsak
dig out
sally forth
pop off
be gone
head off
avaunt
walk off
step on it
naff off
on your bike
sod off
take a long walk on a short pier
move off
go jump in the lake
take to your heels
haul off
get along
be on your way
nick off
make your getaway
sling your hook
hop it
be off with you
go and jump in the lake
relinquish
rescind
repeal
rusticate
separate
revoke
take oneself
leave service
go to one's room
deny oneself
sever connections
hand over
make vacant
clear
make a move
squinch
skip
proceed
hide
cop out
git
jump back
bow out
spring back
shudder
slip away
break out of
falter
steal away
say goodbye
demur
opt out
leave for
make a start
hesitate
return
make a getaway
turn away
step down
take wing
make quick exit
hop the twig
blink
make a break
push along
get stuffed
take yourself off
get moving
hop the stick
retract
kite
egress
alight
tear off
range
cruise
spread
fade away
wend
mosey
make like a tree and get out of here
make like a tree and leave
retrograde
back
regroup
retrocede
free oneself
break out
extricate oneself
jump
hotfoot
hasten away
run from
sneak away
make one's way
betake yourself
bust out
make for
skip out
step on the gas
make one's escape
be put out to pasture
be pensioned off
shut oneself away in
be superannuated
pension
hotfoot it
sneak off
sell
shy
be lost
hasten
spur
scurry
hustle
speed
race
expedite
zip
dart
dash
rush
whiz
hurry
go on the lam
do a Skase
depart suddenly
take French leave
do a moonlight flit
go AWOL
absquatulate
die
demise
end
decease
flatline
expire
perish
drop
fall
croak
succumb
straggle
spring
give back
retreat from
turn around
run scared
ditch
dump
fight shy of
jib at
quail at
baulk at
boggle at
get cold feet
hang back
eschew
stop working
go to bed
put out to pasture
turn in
go to sleep
hit the sack
give up work
kick in
conk out
pass on
kick off
issue
peg out
pass away
exeunt
step out
abstract
sell out
sell up
hurry up
make time
make haste
move fast
kick rocks
go your way
go and chase yourself
get out of my sight
go offstage
run out on
turn on a dime
make a U-turn
desert under fire
disassociate
dissociate
shake a leg
go like lightning
get a move on
renege on
stop
back out of
get out of
stop participating in
pull
bow out of
stop participating
pluck out
flake off
walk out on
cut loose
kiss goodbye
leave high and dry
react
resile
delink
make a dash for it
leave in the lurch
leave flat
do vanishing act
bid farewell
take one's leave
drop behind
carom
stickle
shake
lag behind
fall behind
slow down
stick
waver
reel
run like scared rabbit
balk at
leave holding the bag
tremble
superannuate
abandon ship
pull the plug
weasel out
transfer
refuse
slink
huddle
boggle
scruple
crouch
jerk back
pass
head for
journey
retreat to
resort
hie
process
draw
retire to
go to
adjourn to
abdicate
migrate
emigrate
sally
exfiltrate
take out
switch
eliminate
detach
betake oneself to
depart for
set off for
take off for
withdraw to
remove to
advance
absent
troop
disengage from
detach yourself
keep aloof
ease out
keep apart
phase out
shut oneself away
go forth
set forth
pack your bags
blast off
march out
move on
hit the bricks
more ❯
Verb
▲
To cover completely with water
submerse
deluge
drown
engulf
flood
gulf
inundate
overflow
overwhelm
submerge
swamp
bore
capsize
couch
decline
demit
depress
descend
dig
disappear
drill
drive
droop
drop
ebb
excavate
fall
flounder
founder
lay
lower
overturn
plummet
plunge
ram
run
sag
scuttle
set
settle
shipwreck
slope
slump
stab
stick
stoop
subside
thrust
wreck
bring down
cast down
cave in
force down
go down
let down
put down
tip over
touch bottom
go to the bottom
trickle
exude
seep
ooze
dribble
spew
well up
course
roll
ripple
swell
teem
emit
drip
percolate
emerge
come over
sweep over
well forth
sputter
gurgle
brim
emanate
disembogue
overspill
rise
regurgitate
whirl
leak out
spill out
bleed
spring
burst
glide
sweat
proceed
weep
strain
filter
swirl
drift
leach
stem
slip
escape
seethe
arise
transude
swelter
perspire
exudate
run out
egress
steam
move
slide
pass
circulate
swarm
storm
erupt
blaze
burst its banks
release
mount
undulate
climb
tower
empty
bowl
extravasate
excrete
filtrate
progress
abound
drizzle
babble
coast
breeze
cruise
bubble
rush forward
emit liquid
come out of
give out
give off
overflow with
vomit
heave
disgorge
pullulate
purl
splash
sail
continue
whisk
smooth along
go along
throw up
spit up
be filled
fill up
fill to capacity
transpire
permeate
infuse
spring up
pervade
suffuse
result
come out
follow
imbue
appear
vent
birth
originate
macerate
charge
sodden
load
imbrue
spread out
be transmitted
eventuate
gush forth
be emitted
seep out
come forth
ooze out
upspring
come
seep forth
flow out
derive from
gush out
flow forth
ooze forth
procreate
reproduce
leaven
transfuse
inoculate
implant
produce
conceive
more ❯
Noun
▲
An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage
setback
reverse
knock
blow
check
complication
disappointment
hitch
hold-up
issue
misfortune
mishap
problem
reversal
upset
whammy
defeat
delay
difficulty
glitch
hiccup
hindrance
impediment
lapse
obstruction
rebuff
about-face
backset
bath
body blow
bottom
bummer
comedown
flip-flop
foil
holdup
knock-back
obstacle
regression
slowdown
trouble
unfortunate development
double whammy
reverse of fortune
stumbling block
drawing board
piece of bad luck
bit of trouble
kick in the teeth
reversal of fortune
whole new ballgame
one in the eye
more ❯
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