retrograde
adjective
moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
retrograding
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present participleof retrograde.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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“Similar retrograding blocks in the past have been associated with periods of colder and wintry weather in the Eastern U.S.,” meteorologist John Homenuk wrote on Twitter.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022
The four boys were looking for possible routes of escape when Red’s brother decided that in arbitration lay his salvation from this swiftly retrograding dilemma.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
It is either advancing or retrograding; we cannot hold without using.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
We reform now our Universities, then after a period our Secondary School system, and so we proceed, advancing here, retrograding there, but of education as an organically connected whole we have no thought.
From The Children: Some Educational Problems by Alexander Darroch
