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But just a few months later, a terrifying truth was clear to her parents — she was relapsing.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024

My family feared I was relapsing, no matter how much I tried to explain that the depression made eating irrelevant at best and impossible at worst.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2022

The man was relapsing into unconsciousness when the doctor quickly took a powerful restorative from his medicine-bag, which lay beside the cot, and held it to the man's nose.

From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

My lord had been strangely disordered; Mrs. Basset had found the fever increasing, and was "afeared the gentleman was relapsing."

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Evidently, after his fit of promptitude, Mr. Tulliver was relapsing into the sense that this is a puzzling world.

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George