regress

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. countable,uncountable
    — Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
  2. The power or liberty of passing back. countable,uncountable
    — Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.
  3. The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. intransitive
  2. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.; To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood. intransitive
    — Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.
  3. To move in the retrograde direction. intransitive
  4. To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission. intransitive
  5. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable. transitive
    — When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.
  6. To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past. transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

regresses plural regresses present,singular,third-person regressing participle,present regressed participle,past regressed past

词汇关系

近义词
retrogress
衍生词
age regress infinite regress ingress, egress, and regress regress argument Ryle's regress pet regress regressand regresser regressor
相关词
regression regressive

词源

词源 1
(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”). Doublet of regressus.
词源 2
(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”). Doublet of regressus.
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