BACKSLIDE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: backslid , backslidden

Present simple: I / you / we / they backslide ... he / she / it backslides

Past simple: backslid

Past participle: backslid /backslidden

-ing form: backsliding

Meaning:

Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

Synonyms:

backslide; lapse

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "backslide" is one way to...):

drop away; drop off; fall away; slip (get worse)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

backslider (someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior)