regress
to move backward or return to an earlier state
Roots
- gress / grad: step, walk, go, or move
- re-: back, again, or backward motion
Other words with the gress / grad root
- digress: to stray from the main point
- digression: a departure from the main point
- progress: forward movement or improvement
- transgress: to cross a rule or boundary
- transgression: an act of crossing a rule or boundary
Re- plus gress gives stepping back.
Without review, her recall began to regress after a week.
Progress walks forward; regress loses ground.