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Synonyms for relapse
rɪˈlæps; ˈri læpsre·lapse

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.5 / 2 votes

  1. relapseverb

    Synonyms:
    retrogress, recede, deteriorate

    Antonyms:
    recover, amend, progress, advance, improve

  2. relapsenoun

    Synonyms:
    falling back, retrogression, returning to a former state

    Antonyms:
    recovery, return, improvement

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, revertingverb

    a failure to maintain a higher state

    Synonyms:
    reversal, atavism, lapse, oversight, turnaround, relapsing, regress, backsliding, lapsing, throwback, regression, turnabout, reverse, reverting, retrogression, reversion, retroversion

  2. get worse, relapseverb

    deteriorate in health

    "he relapsed"

    Synonyms:
    retrogress, get worse, recidivate, regress, lapse, fall back

  3. relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb

    go back to bad behavior

    "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

    Synonyms:
    go along, lapse, slip away, recidivate, backslide, retrogress, lag, retrovert, regress, elapse, dawdle, revert, fall back, fall behind, sink, lose, glide by, retrograde, resort, pass, return, slide by, recede, drop off, slip by, go by, get worse, recur, turn back

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. relapseverb

    Synonyms:
    fall back, return to a former state (especially a bad state)

  2. relapsenoun

    Synonyms:
    falling back, return to a former state (especially a bad state)

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. relapse

    Synonyms:
    Recrudescence

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How to use relapse in a sentence?

  1. Yasmin Hurd:

    The intense craving is what drives the drug use, if we can have the medications that can dampen that [ craving ], that can greatly reduce the chance of relapse and overdose risk.

  2. Shelly Flagel:

    Often, the reason we study this type of learning process is to help us better understand addiction, and the biggest problem with addiction is relapse, when you see this biological correlation between those who are and those who are not able to resist something, you can build on that.

  3. Jack Osbourne:

    I told him everything [about my relapse] and him and I put together a plan.

  4. Millan Mulraine:

    The bigger question will be determining whether this deterioration in labor market momentum is part of a broader inflection point for the economic recovery, this is the Fed's 'known unknown,' and a risk management approach will require more patience to assess the incoming labor market data for an answer to the question of whether this is a realignment in the labor market dynamics to a more sustainable path, or a more worrying relapse in the recovery.

  5. Celia Morgan:

    Ketamine is a well-tolerated drug and can help alleviate the symptoms of depression, with a pilot study suggesting that it could cut alcohol relapse rates by more than half, this trial will allow us to examine whether ketamine, combined with therapy, can indeed help people stay abstinent from alcohol.


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