regressed

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past simple and past participle of

to return to a previous and less advanced or worse state, condition, or way of behaving:

She suffered brain damage from the car accident and regressed to the mental age of a five-year-old.

He says the city has regressed in terms of participation in recycling.

(of an illness or its symptoms (= effects)) to become less severe:

Following removal of the tumour, all the symptoms regressed.

The disease may regress if the patient stops smoking.