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発音

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/
  • (verb) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɹɛs/
  • 韻: -ɛs

名詞

regress (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 regresses)

1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
   • 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books:

     Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.

2. The power or liberty of passing back.
   • 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, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.

3. (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

   Coordinate terms: ingress, egress

同意語

• retrogress

派生語

• infinite regress
• ingress, egress, and regress
• Ryle's regress

動詞

regress (三人称単数 現在形 regresses, 現在分詞 regressing, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

      Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.

2. (intransitive, astronomy) To move from east to west.(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.

   When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.

5. (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
   • 2018, Michael Brein; Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness:

     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.

同意語

• backslide

反意語

• advance
• proceed
• progress

関連する語

• regression
• regressive

Further reading

• “regress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “regress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• regress at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• sergers