regress
re·gress • v. / riˈgres/ 1. [intr.] return to a former or less developed state: art has been regressing toward adolescence for more than a generation now. ∎ return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, esp. through hypnosis or mental illness: [intr.] she claims to be able to regress to the Roman era | [tr.] I regressed Sylvia to early childhood. 2. [tr.] Statistics calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable.3. [intr.] Astron. move in a retrograde direction.• n. / ˈrēˌgres/ 1. the action of returning to a former or less developed state.2. Philos. a series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g., defining something in terms of itself).