relapse
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Is relapse a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.Examples: "He has improved recently but keeps relapsing into states of utter confusion."; "to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism"; "to relapse into slumber after being disturbed"intransitive
2. (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).intransitive
3. (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence.Examples: "relapsed after 5 months of being clean"informalintransitivespecifically
noun (English)
1. (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
2. (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary