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
To the left, however, the street retrograded into second-hand stores, junk-shops, and the like, cheap eating places and boarding-houses, with a mixture of saloons.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
Through the exercise of their wills they grew, or remained passive, or perhaps even retrograded, for with living things motion in any direction is possible.
From A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John A. Widtsoe
So far from further broadening that broader view which Mr. Darwin reached as he grew older, his followers appear to have retrograded towards a more restricted view than he ever expressed.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
Whoever studies the history of the race from age to age and nation to nation finds the world has advanced and not retrograded by giving responsibility to the individual.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
