retrogressed
past simple and past participle ofretrogress
retrogress
verb[I]
formaluk/ˌret.rəˈɡres/us/ˈret.rə.ɡres/toreturnto anolderandworsestate
Deteriorating and making worse
- add
- admin
- aggravate
- backslide
- be (all) downhillidiom
- compound
- debase
- degrade
- deterioration
- devaluation
- devalue
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- regress
- regression
- regressive
- relapse
- retrograde
- retrogress
Examplesofretrogressed
retrogressed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The eclogite sheets and pods are generally sheared andretrogressedto amphibolites at the margins of such bodies.
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Any garnet in these more mafic gneisses is generally larger and often slightlyretrogressed.
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In metre-scale pods, the core consists of the leastretrogressedeclogite with increasing retrogression towards the margin.
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Only two childrenretrogressed(those in the cells below the diagonal).
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Deformation within the heavilyretrogressedgneiss is very heterogeneous in character and possibly governed by the (variable) orientation of gneissic foliation with respect to the extension direction.
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The pegmatites in the boudin necks are spatially associated with theretrogressedmargins of the eclogitic pods, and thus taken to be the syn-deformational melts emplaced during amphibolite facies metamorphism.
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The third suite consists ofretrogressedeclogite, and is normally found in the shear zone itself, or in the hanging wall just above the shear zone.
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Their feet have three forward-facing toes; a hind toe is either higher andretrogressed, or absent.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He is near death and his injuries haveretrogressed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The both team have beenretrogressedof 2 seconds to their total race time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It lacks large foliage-type leaves; in fact, its leaves haveretrogressedas succulent branches.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is in turn overlain by stringy-beef textured recrystallised disseminated ore zones containingretrogressedmetamorphic olivine and distinctive bladed anthophyllite.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Lamellar symplectites are common inretrogressedeclogite.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The massive zone is overlain by a matrix ore zone composed of the above sulfide assemblage and coarse jackstraw textured bladed olivine, nowretrogressedto black serpentinite.
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