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BACKSLIDE
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Irregular inflected forms: backslid
, backslidden
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they backslide
... he / she / it backslides
Past simple: backslid
Past participle: backslid
/backslidden
-ing form: backsliding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Synonyms:
backslide; lapse
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "backslide" is one way to...):
drop away; drop off; fall away; slip (get worse)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
backslider (someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior)