retrograde
adjective
moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
retrogrades
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present tense formof retrograde (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes it is said that the high retrogrades, or backs off to the west, allowing the storm track to come down the coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
Known in our dancers’ nomenclature as “The King and Queen,” it is built primarily on one basic theme with its inversions, reversals and retrogrades.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2015
All of the opera's other themes, accompaniments and leitmotifs are derived from endlessly ingenious extrapolations, inversions, retrogrades and other variations of the original row.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or he might be overthrown and replaced by retrogrades who would have at their disposal the military wherewithal to engage once again in old thinking and old behavior.
From Time Magazine Archive
The facts of history prove nothing more conclusively than this: a race either progresses or retrogrades, either increases or diminishes: the children of Time, like their sire, cannot stand still.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
