retrograde
adjective
moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
retrograded
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past participleof retrograde.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof retrograde.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
retrogradeadjectivemoving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
Example Sentences
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Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second way was conquest with incorporation, but without representation; and this lacking, the government retrograded and gradually became a despotism.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
Women had retrograded to the old circular idea; they had given up their pokes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Nor is a change of views necessarily a reproach to a politician, even though he may have retrograded or gone wrong.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
The plain truth is that during these years, except in the matter of bye and cross-post letters, the Post Office had retrograded rather than advanced.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
