When to Use Retrogress?

When to Use Retrogress?

Retrogress in a Sentence ?
  1. When Glenn became a millionaire, he swore he would never retrogress to a life of poverty.
  2. The people were worried their inept legislators would ruin the economy by causing it to retrogress to a monetary depression.

What does it mean to retrogress?

intransitive verb. : to move backward : revert.

What is the difference between regress and retrogress?

To add some context: When I look up the definitions I see the definition for regress is "to return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state", whereas the definition for retrogress is "to go back to an earlier, esp worse, condition". They both look the same to me: antonyms of "progress".

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