Question

regress In the years since she had left, the country seemed to have regressed badly, and its corruption and dire poverty had gotten much harder to ignore. ˈrigrɛs

Accepted Answer

To return to an earlier and usually worse or less developed condition or state. As you might guess, regress is the opposite of progress. So if a disease regresses, that's generally a good thing, but in most other ways we prefer not to regress. If someone's mental state has been improving, we hope he or she won't start to regress; and when a nation's promising educational system begins to regress, that's a bad sign for the country's future. Economists often distinguish between a progressive tax and a regressive tax; in a progressive tax, the percentage that goes to taxes gets larger as the amount of money being taxed gets larger, while in a regressive tax the percentage gets smaller. (Rich people prefer regressive taxes.)

word	regress
definition	To return to an earlier and usually worse or less developed condition or state.
eg_sentence	In the years since she had left, the country seemed to have regressed badly, and its corruption and dire poverty had gotten much harder to ignore.
explanation	As you might guess, regress is the opposite of progress. So if a disease regresses, that's generally a good thing, but in most other ways we prefer not to regress. If someone's mental state has been improving, we hope he or she won't start to regress; and when a nation's promising educational system begins to regress, that's a bad sign for the country's future. Economists often distinguish between a progressive tax and a regressive tax; in a progressive tax, the percentage that goes to taxes gets larger as the amount of money being taxed gets larger, while in a regressive tax the percentage gets smaller. (Rich people prefer regressive taxes.)
IPA	ˈrigrɛs

Regressive Regress Prefer Progressive Tax Percentage Return Earlier