Synonyms of the word

retrograde

• adj. Directed backwards, retreating; reverting especially inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement…
• adj. Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
• adj. (astronomy, of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
• adj. (geology) Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
• n. A degenerate person.
• n. (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last and…
• v. (intransitive) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
• v. (intransitive, astronomy) To show retrogradation.

backward

• adj. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
• adj. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.
• adj. Reluctant or unable to advance.
• adj. Of a culture considered undeveloped or unsophisticated.
• adj. Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
• adj. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
• adj. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
• adj. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
• adj. Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
• adj. Late or behindhand.
• adj. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
• adv. (of motion) In the direction towards the back; backwards.
• adv. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
• adv. By way of reflection; reflexively.
• adv. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
• n. The state behind or past.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

locomote

• v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

orb

• n. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
• n. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and…
• n. A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body;…
• n. (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
• n. (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
• n. (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
• n. (rare) A sphere of action.
• n. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power.
• n. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.
• n. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
• v. (poetic) to form into an orb or circle.
• v. (poetic, transitive) to encircle; to surround; to enclose.
• v. (poetic, intransitive) to become round like an orb.
• n. (architecture) A blank window or panel.

orbit

• n. A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
• n. A sphere of influence; an area of control.
• n. The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
• n. (anatomy) The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
• n. (physics) A mathematical function that describes the wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom; area…
• n. (mathematics) A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
• n. (geometry, group theory) The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members…
• v. To circle or revolve around another object.
• v. To move around the general vicinity of something.
• v. To place an object into an orbit around a planet.

recap

• v. To seal (something) again with a cap.
• v. To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing a new outer portion. (US English only - Retread in UK English).
• n. A tire that has had new tread glued on.
• n. A recapitulation.
• v. To recapitulate.
• n. A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio.

recapitulate

• v. To summarize or repeat in concise form.
• v. (biology, of an organism) During an individual's development, to pass through stages corresponding to…

recede

• v. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
• v. To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
• v. To take back.

regress

• n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
• n. The power or liberty of passing back.
• n. In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
• v. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
• v. (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

regressive

• adj. That tends to return, revert or regress.
• adj. (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.

rehash

• v. (transitive) To rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some…
• v. (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added…
• n. Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
• n. (computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

retire

• v. (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
• v. (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
• v. (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
• v. (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
• v. (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service;…
• v. (transitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next…
• v. (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out,…
• v. (intransitive) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from…
• v. (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
• v. (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
• v. (intransitive) To go to bed.
• n. (rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
• n. a place to which one retires.
• n. (dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
• v. (transitive) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.

retreat

• n. The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
• n. The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
• n. A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
• n. (rare and obsolete, euphemistic) An peaceful, quiet place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse;…
• n. A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
• n. A period of meditation, prayer or study.
• n. Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
• n. A signal for a military withdrawal.
• n. A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
• n. A military ceremony to lower the flag.
• n. (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
• v. (of military forces) to withdraw from a position, go back.
• v. (of a glacier) to shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures.

retrogress

• v. (intransitive) To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress.
• v. (intransitive) To go backwards; to retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To return to bad behaviour; to relapse.

retrogressive

• adj. Of or relating to retrogression.
• adj. Directed towards the rear or the past; retrograde.

revolve

• v. (intransitive) To orbit a central point.
• v. To turn on an axis.
• v. (intransitive) To recur in cycles.
• v. (transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

worsen

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.