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
It would be interesting to know just why feminine education, after a period of efflorescence during the Thirteenth Century, retrograded during the next century.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
It barely communicated with the others and retrograded towards barbarism without regularly organized government or other will than that of its respective tyrant and the free-lances who were his immediate followers.
From The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Ernesto Quesada
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
Stump fields are today no novelty in Illinois, and farming has not retrograded.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
