Verb

• S: (v) fall back (fall backwards and down)
• S: (v) lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind (hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.)
• S: (v) fall back (move back and away from) "The enemy fell back"
• S: (v) fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede (retreat)
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• W: (n) recession [Related to: recede] (the act of ceding back)
• W: (n) receding [Related to: recede] (the act of becoming more distant)
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• S: (v) fall back, resort, recur (have recourse to) "The government resorted to rationing meat"
• S: (v) relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back (go back to bad behavior) "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back (go back to a previous state) "We reverted to the old rules"
• S: (v) relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back (go back to bad behavior) "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
• S: (v) resile (return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed) "The rubber tubes resile"
• S: (v) recover, go back, recuperate (regain a former condition after a financial loss) "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate"
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