retrograde
adjective
moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
is retrograding
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present progressiveof retrograde (3rd person singular).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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Gen. Lee, it is said, is not permitted to follow Meade, who is retrograding, being weakened by detachments.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
If community life is static, school and church stay in the ruts; if it is retrograding, they are losing ground; if it is progressive, they gradually show improvement.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Henry Kalloch Rowe
Atalanta is retrograding and is rapidly losing that characteristic of speed which made her name a fitting one.
From A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black
