| |  | a failure to maintain a higher state पर्याय: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting,
 
 
 |  |  | returning to a former state पर्याय: regression, regress, retrogression, retroversion,
 
 
 |  |  | turning in the opposite direction पर्याय: reverse, reversal, turnabout, turnaround,
 
 
 |  |  | a reappearance of an earlier characteristic पर्याय: atavism, throwback,
 
 
 |  |  | (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) 
 
 |  |  | (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) 
 
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