relapse
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- n a failure to maintain a higher state
- v deteriorate in health
he relapsed - v go back to bad behavior
- Realistically appraising the degrees of their own recovery and the hazard of relapse under pressure, they confirmed the adage "It takes one to know one.
- Did a UCLA experiment deliberately allow a schizophrenic to fall into a severe relapse?.
- Following a relapse, he died "in his father's country house" of "bronchopneumonia.