Synonyms for backslide
- verb
Definitions
- v. 1
To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide.
Related words
- Word family
- backslider backsliding
Forms
- Past participle
- backslid
e.g. backslid → relapsed, regressed, retrograded, lapsed…
Example sentences
- lapse Tom began to lapse in and out of consciousness.
- relapse I try to be calmer these days. That outburst was a relapse into my old behavior.
- regress It is quite clear that they are going to make us regress.
By length
- 5 letters
- lapse1
- 7 letters
- relapse2, regress2
- 10 letters
- retrograde3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (relapse2 = 2 syllables).