regrede
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin regredi (“to go back”). Compare regrade, regress.
Verb
[edit]regrede (third-person singular simple present regredes, present participle regreding, simple past and past participle regreded)
- (intransitive) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.
- 1878, The Educational Times, page 316:
- […] the instantaneous parabola decreases in magnitude and descends in position throughout the entire motion, while its axis regredes during the ascent and progredes during the descent of the particle.