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Synonyms for relapse
rɪˈlæps; ˈri læpsre·lapse
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
relapse
Synonyms:
check, decline, delay, falling back, falling off, retrogression, stay, stop, stoppageAntonyms:
advance, advancement, attainment, development, growth, improvement, increase, proficiency, progress, progression
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
relapseverb
Synonyms:
retrogress, recede, deterioraterelapsenoun
Synonyms:
falling back, retrogression, returning to a former stateAntonyms:
recovery, return, improvement
Princeton's WordNet
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, retroversionget worse, relapseverb
deteriorate in health
"he relapsed"
Synonyms:
retrogress, get worse, recidivate, regress, lapse, fall backrelapse, 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 Synonymes
relapseverb
Synonyms:
fall back, return to a former state (especially a bad state)relapsenoun
Synonyms:
falling back, return to a former state (especially a bad state)
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "relapse":
relapsed, recurrence, recidivism, backsliding, setback, re-offending, slip, reoffending
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
relapse
Synonyms:
Recrudescence
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#357 | return | |
#1001 | stay | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1864 | resort | |
#3169 | lose | |
#3446 | delay | |
#3815 | reverse | |
#5110 | slip | |
#5615 | decline | |
#7229 | sink | |
#8636 | regression | |
#10114 | oversight | |
#14447 | lag | |
#15621 | reversal | |
#17866 | turnaround | |
#18686 | recurrence | |
#20021 | revert | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#21804 | setback | |
#25141 | relapse | |
#31016 | throwback | |
#37387 | deteriorate | |
#38684 | retrograde | |
#39147 | regress | |
#40939 | reversion | |
#46382 | recur | |
#48365 | stoppage | |
#52135 | recidivism | |
#52350 | reverting | |
#62209 | relapsed | |
#63983 | recede | |
#72536 | elapse | |
#75553 | relapsing | |
#100874 | turnabout | |
#111234 | lapsing | |
#114563 | backsliding | |
#158119 | retrogression | |
#176354 | reoffending | |
#218314 | dawdle | |
#233972 | backslide | |
#248648 | atavism |
How to use relapse in a sentence?
This study is the first to point out that even if smokers may succeed in stopping smoking with the aid of electronic cigarettes, they still need to be monitored by doctors and health professionals to prevent a relapse in the long term.
The patients who stopped their antidepressants experienced a relapse sooner than the patients who stayed on their antidepressants.
I told him everything [about my relapse] and him and I put together a plan.
Whenever there's a natural disaster, we know that relapse goes up, because of anxiety, the fear of the unknown, now we have an ongoing, natural disaster, if you will.
We're having a relapse. I'm hopeful this is a reaction to the good week we had last week, and we'll have a couple of soft days and then it will get better.
Translations for relapse
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- recidiva, relaps, atakaCzech
- Rezidiv, zurückfallen, Rückfall, sich verschlimmern, sich verschlechternGerman
- υποτροπιάζωGreek
- refali, refaloEsperanto
- recidiva, recaer, reincidir, recaídaSpanish
- عودPersian
- kokea takaisku, langeta, uusiutua, pahentua, pahetaFinnish
- rechuteFrench
- ath-thuiteam, ath-thuisleachadh, ath-thuit, ath-thuislichScottish Gaelic
- aaghoghan, aahuitt, aahuittym, aaskyrrManx
- recader, recaditaInterlingua
- ricadere, ricaduta, recidivareItalian
- matahokiMāori
- recaídaPortuguese
- huchachakuyQuechua
- recidivaRomanian
- впадать, рецидивировать, рецидив, обострятьсяRussian
- recidivSwedish
- 复发Chinese
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