retrograde
adjective
moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
had retrograded
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past perfectof retrograde.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Along with many, many other men, he had retrograded.
From The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey
Here he learned that Lord Rawdon had retrograded from the Waxhaws to Camden.
From Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical by C. L. Hunter
Though not yet a Roman Catholic like his grandfather, he had retrograded into Royalism, without becoming on that account estranged from his elder brother.
From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett
Since the day when his promotion had brought his adjutant, Brodsky, to the colonelcy, the regiment had retrograded steadily.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
Only they had retrograded in the strange scale of evolution.
From Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey
