relapse
verb (used without object)
to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc..
are relapsing
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present progressiveof relapse.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Those findings suggest that Paxlovid isn’t the reason people are relapsing, because that’s happening in untreated people, too.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
Men who have previously been sectioned call him up when they are relapsing.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2019
Many illnesses are "relapsing and remitting," meaning they get better and they get worse.
From US News ● Jun. 17, 2015
"We are relapsing into the Jacquerie!" put in the Abbot, raising his hands heavenward.
From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Eug?ne Sue
Her fields, which once blossomed like the rose, are relapsing into the wilderness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
