资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Regress \Re*gress"\ (r?*gr?s"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Regressed}
   (-gr?st"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Regressing}.]
   To go back; to return to a former place or state. --Sir T.
   Browne.