Move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies.

Roget 661: relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return; retrograde etc. 283; recidivate; fall off again etc. 659.   

Move in a direction contrary to the usual one.

Move back:
— The glacier retrogrades.

synoniem: retreat.

Roget 283: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish [U.S.], crawl [Slang]; withdraw; rebound etc. 277; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.    turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon; retrace one's steps, dance the back step; sound a retreat, beat a retreat; go home.    ... meer laten zien

Go back over:
— Retrograde arguments.

synoniemen: hash over, rehash.

Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.

synoniemen: regress, retrogress.

Nederlands: afzakken

Moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth.

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; sprung; withering, spoiling etc. v.; on the wane, on the decline; tabid^†; degenerate; marescent^†; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect etc. 651; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky [U.S.].    decayed etc. v.; moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved etc. (vicious) 945; decrepid^†, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat [Fr.], out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work etc. (useless) 645.    at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous; nodding to its fall etc. (destruction) 162; tottering etc. (dangerous) 665; past cure etc. (hopeless) 859; fatigued etc. 688; retrograde etc. (retrogressive) 283; deleterious etc. 649.    ... meer laten zien

Of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma.

Going from better to worse.

synoniem: retrogressive.

Roget 283: receding etc. v.; retrograde, retrogressive; regressive, refluent^†, reflex, recidivous, resilient; crab-like; balky; reactionary etc. 277.    ... meer laten zien

Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.

synoniem: retral.