relapse
verb (used without object)
to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc..
were relapsing
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past progressiveof relapse.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"Alive," she echoes, as if she were relapsing to her old quoting days.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Books had been burnt, clerks had forgotten their Latin; the people were relapsing by degrees into barbarism.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Methought my request was heard, for it seemed as though the stains of manhood were passing from me, and I were relapsing into the purity and simplicity of childhood.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
