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back·slide
 backslide
- pronunciation:
- baek
slaId
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intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
backslid, backslides, backsliding |
| definition: |
to revert to moral wrongdoing or sin.
Her parents worried that she would backslide into drug addiction.- antonyms:
- persevere
- similar words:
- relapse, revert
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| related words: |
fall, offend, stray |
| derivation: |
backslider (n.) |
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