What is another word for backsliding?

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What is another word for backsliding?

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barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, base on balls, be active, bear, bear down, bearing, beat, bechance, become, become flat, bed, beetle off, befall, befoulment, beget, begin, bend, best, betray, bettor, bewilder, bill, billing, birth, bit, black eye, blame, bloomer, blooper, blow, blow over, blue, blunder out, blurt, blurt out, bolt of lightning, bolt out, bomb, boo-boo, boob, boot, botch, bout, break, break down, breaking away, bring, bring back, bring forth, buck, bugger off, bump, bungle, burden, burster, bursting charge, buy the farm, buzz off, bye, call on, capitulation, capture, care, carrefour, catch, catch up with, cathexis, cause, cave in, cede, ceding back, chair, championship, chance, change by reversal, change of mind, change state, charge up, check, chemical reaction, chip in, choke, clear, collapse, come, come about, come back, come down, comeback, coming back, command, commence, commission, commit, commove, communicate, complaint, computer error, conduce, conduct, 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free fall, fuck off, fuckup, fumble, funding, generate, geological fault, get down, get worse, getting even, gift, give back, give birth, give out, give up, give way, gloaming, go, go away, go bad, go down, go off, go on, go past, go to bed, go to sleep, go wrong, gobble, godless, godlessness, good turn, goof, grant, gravel, grow, guardianship, guide, habitual criminal, half-witted, hand, hand over, hang, hap, hark back, have, haywire, head, heinousness, heraldic bearing, hesitation, high life, high treason, highlife, hint, hit the hay, hit the sack, hold, hold in, hollowness, homecoming, horror, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, ill-timed, imitation, impairment, impart, imperfect, impertinent, impress, improper, improperness, improve, impureness, inadvertence, incite, income tax return, inconstancy, incorrect, incorrectly, incur, indecency, indecorousness, indemnification, indemnity, induce, infantile fixation, informing, inhumanity, iniquitous, injustice, inordinateness, insincerity, institutionalise, institutionalize, insure, interbreeding, interchange, intersection, inverse, invert, irreligiousness, issue, jumper cable, jumper lead, juvenile delinquency, keep, keep in line, kick, kick in, kick the bucket, kip down, lag, laissez passer, languish, lasciviousness, lavishness, laxness, lead story, lead-in, leading, leash, leave, legal injury, legislate, lessen, let, level, liberty, liberty chit, licentiousness, lift, light, linger, load, locomote, lodge, loose, looseness, loser, luxuriate, make, make a motion, make it, make pass, malefic, malevolency, malevolent, malice, malicious gossip, malign, malignity, manipulate, master, mastery, materialise, materialize, meliorate, melt, misapprehension, miscarry, misconduct, misdirect, misidentify, misplay, miss, mission, mistaken, misunderstanding, moderate, mother, motility, motion, motivate, motiveless, mount, mountain pass, move around, move back, move over, movement, mystify, neglect, niche, nightfall, nimiety, nonchurchgoing, nonpayment, nonplus, nonstarter, nontraditional, notch, number, obstinate, obtain, occur, off-key, offer, open, operate, opposite, opprobrium, orb, orbit, outrage, outrageousness, overabundance, overcome, overhaul, overindulgence, overpower, override, overrule, overstep, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pall, pass away, pass off, pass on, pass up, passing, passing game, passing play, passport, patronage, pay, pay back, pay off, paying back, payoff, pb, peccant, pencil lead, perfidiousness, perplex, pert, perverse, pervert, piddle, piddle away, pin, pitch, play, play along, plough, plow, point, policy change, poltroon, pop off, pose, precede, precipitate, present, pretended, principal, proceed, proceeds, produce, profligate, promiscuous, prompt, propel, prurience, pruriency, pull away, pull back, punter, push back, put across, put out, putrefaction, putrescence, putridness, puzzle, qualifying, ratter, reach, reappearance, rearward, rearwards, reasoning backward, rebel, recall, receive, recess, recessional, recur, redeem, redress, redundant, reelect, reformation, refund, refuse, regaining, regression toward the mean, reject, rejoin, rejoinder, release, relocation, remissness, render, renewal, renovation, renunciation, repay, repeal, repeat, repeater, repeating, replication, repugnance, repulsion, rescind, rescue, resort, response, restraint, restrict, result, retort, retreat, retroflection, retrograde, retrovert, return key, reversionist, reversive, revoke, rick, rickety, rigidly, riposte, roll, rotate, rottenness, round, rouse, routine, run, run off, run out, rush, sack out, sacrifice, saddle, sapless, sapphism, saucy, savagery, save, scram, secular, see, see to it, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation, send, sensual, separatist, set, set about, set out, settle, sexual perversion, sezession, shabbiness, sham, sharecrop farmer, sharecropper, shift, shine, shoot, simple regression, simulated, sine, sinful, sinfulness, sink, sire, skip, slackness, slap, slapdash, slice, slicing, slip, slow-witted, slump, sluttish, smack, smutty, sneak away, sneak off, sneak out, snuff it, soiled, solidification, solidifying, sour, spare, spark advance, spell, spendthrift, spill, split, sprain, spring, springiness, squanderer, star, start, start out, steal away, steer, stepping down, stick, stiffly, stimulate, strait, straits, strike, strike out, stupefy, subversion, subversiveness, subvert, suffer, supererogatory, superfluous, superintendence, supernumerary, supervising, supervision, support, surfeit, surpass, surplus, surplusage, surrender, sustain, sweep over, swerve, swerving, swing, swinging, switch, tack, take, take back, take place, takings, tax return, tear, tether, thong, thrill, throw, thunderbolt, tight, tip, top, toss, tour, toying, track, trail, traitorously, traitorousness, transcend, transgress, transposition, travel, travel by, treacherously, treachery, treasonably, trespass, trifle, trifle away, tumble, turn a loss, turn around, turn back, turn down, turn in, turn of events, turn over, turnaround time, turncoat, turning, turnround, turpitude, tutelage, twilight, twist, unaccented, unbelieving, unconsecrated, unconstraint, unfairness, unorthodoxy, unprovoked, unsanctified, unseasonable, unsuccessful person, untimely, untrue, vacate, vaporize, vary, verify, verso, vex, vicious, villainousness, violate, violation, vitiate, wagerer, walk, wane, wanton away, washy, watery, wavering, weakly, whelm, whirl, wickedness, willful neglect, wind, withdraw, withdrawal, wither, work, worsen, worsening, wrench, wrick, wrongful conduct, wrongfulness, wrongly, yield, actus reus, lese majesty, statistical regression, curing, criminalness, refurbishment, crepuscule, crepuscle, drop off, put on, go by, cash in one's chips, give-up the ghost, turn on, go around, get under one's skin, shoot down, fork over, fork out, fork up, recessionary, cruddy, make off, reverse gear, crack, ejaculate, boner, pass along, booster cable, drop the ball, recessive allele, foul-up, drop dead, recessive, regressive, backward, untraditional, enormity, backslide, immorality, wrong, evil, depravity, excess, iniquity, better, decadence, sin, repetition, villainy, defection, desertion, lapse, relapse, lapsing, reverting, backsliding, relapsing, de-cays, de scent, re-cessions, de-cline, de-volution, devolutions, de-scent, de clines, dwindlings, de cays, on skid, de generation, de volutions, dis-solution, dis-solutions, de-scents, de scents, worsenings, de-generation, falling offs, re cession, on the skid, dis solution, weakenings, de-generations, re-cession, de-clines, dis solutions, de cay, re cessions, de-cay, de generations, on skids, de volution, de cline, de-volutions, dis-affections, re-volt, dis-affection, dis-loyalties, re volts, disownments, re treats, dis affections, forsakings, sunderings, re-volts, dis loyalty, re volt, dis affection, dis-loyalty, re-treat, dis loyalties, re-treats, dis avowals, de relict, dis avowing, dis-avowal, departings, dis-avowing, running out ons, disavowings, defectings, de relicts, de-parting, de-relict, maroonings, de-relicts, going back ons, de-partings, dis-avowals, falling aways, de partings, dis avowal, de parting, counterrevolutions, obscurantisms, counter revolutions, re-action, toryisms, re-actions, counter-revolutions, counter revolution, re actions, re action, de cadences, de cadence, de-cadences, de-cadence, re-creance, re creance, re creances, re-creances, return, Retrocession, regression, recession, Retrogradation, throwback, retrogression, recurrence, turn for the worse, about-face, renouncement, abdication, turnabout, dereliction, abandonment, apostasy, betrayal, abnegation, Retractation, denial, retro gradations, retro gradation, retro-gradation, retro-gradations, throwbacks, atavisms, atavism, receding, fleeing, retreating, regressing, returning, Recessing, declining, Recurring, Abdicating, Renouncing, crossing, Retracting, Disavowing, betraying, Abnegating, Denying, Abandoning, defecting, Deserting, renegade

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