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to backslide
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to return to worse behavior, habits, or moral standards after having improved
Intransitive: to backslide | to backslide into a previous condition
Grammatical Information
Composition
Compound
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
backslide
3rd person singular
backslides
Present participle
backsliding
Past simple
backslid
Past participle
backslid
Examples
After months of sobriety, he began to backslide into drinking again.
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