recidivate

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: re=cid=i=vate

CIDE DICTIONARY

recidivate, v. i. [LL. recidivare. See Recidivous.].

 To backslide; to fall again.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

recidivate

backslide, cock, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, get behind, go backwards, go behind, have a relapse, jerk back, lapse, lapse back, lose ground, pull back, recede, recur to, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, retrovert, return, return to, reverse, revert, revert to, sink back, slide back, slip back, yield again to

ROGET THESAURUS

recidivate

Relapse

VB relapse, lapse, fall back, slide back, sink back, return, retrograde, recidivate, fall off again.