Synonyms for relapse
rɪˈlæps; ˈri læpsre·lapse

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1. relapse

   Synonyms:
   check, decline, delay, falling back, falling off, retrogression, stay, stop, stoppage

   Antonyms:
   advance, advancement, attainment, development, growth, improvement, increase, proficiency, progress, progression

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1. relapseverb

   Synonyms:
   retrogress, recede, deteriorate

   Antonyms:
   recover, amend, progress, advance, improve

2. relapsenoun

   Synonyms:
   falling back, retrogression, returning to a former state

   Antonyms:
   recovery, return, improvement

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1. backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, revertingverb

   a failure to maintain a higher state

   Synonyms:
   reversal, atavism, lapse, oversight, turnaround, relapsing, regress, backsliding, lapsing, throwback, regression, turnabout, reverse, reverting, retrogression, reversion, retroversion

2. get worse, relapseverb

   deteriorate in health

   "he relapsed"

   Synonyms:
   retrogress, get worse, recidivate, regress, lapse, fall back

3. relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb

   go back to bad behavior

   "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

   Synonyms:
   go along, lapse, slip away, recidivate, backslide, retrogress, lag, retrovert, regress, elapse, dawdle, revert, fall back, fall behind, sink, lose, glide by, retrograde, resort, pass, return, slide by, recede, drop off, slip by, go by, get worse, recur, turn back

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1. • Change State

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1. relapseverb

   Synonyms:
   fall back, return to a former state (especially a bad state)

2. relapsenoun

   Synonyms:
   falling back, return to a former state (especially a bad state)

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1. List of paraphrases for "relapse":

   relapsed, recurrence, recidivism, backsliding, setback, re-offending, slip, reoffending

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1. relapse

   Synonyms:
   Recrudescence

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1. Shelly Flagel:

   Often, the reason we study this type of learning process is to help us better understand addiction, and the biggest problem with addiction is relapse, when you see this biological correlation between those who are and those who are not able to resist something, you can build on that.

2. Dorian Deshauer:

   Once you abandon the idea of a personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.

3. Bhanuprakash Kolla:

   Up to two-thirds of them report sleep disturbances when they stop cannabis use, and it is a frequent reason for relapse to cannabis use, therefore, cannabis can set up a pattern where it is minimally helpful for sleep in the short term and then disrupt sleep, making it difficult to stop use in the medium to long term.

4. Richard Davidson:

   Depression is a recurrent illness, relapse is a very significant problem with depression, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may be particularly valuable in reducing the risk of relapse.

5. Yasmin Hurd:

   The intense craving is what drives the drug use, if we can have the medications that can dampen that [ craving ], that can greatly reduce the chance of relapse and overdose risk.