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- in extreme circumstances, people sometimes regress to the behavior they exhibited in childhood
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- the annual celebration has regressed to the point where it's nothing more than an excuse to get drunk
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- atrophy,
- crumble,
- decay,
- decline,
- degenerate,
- descend,
- deteriorate,
- devolve,
- ebb,
- retrograde,
- rot,
- sink,
- worsen
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- go to pot,
- go to seed
- (or run to seed)
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“Regress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regress. Accessed 18 Oct. 2021.
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