retrograding

Verb

retrograde (third-person singular simple present retrogrades, present participle retrograding, simple past and past participle retrograded)

1. (transitive) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
2. (transitive) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
4. (intransitive) To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
   • […] Monna Brigida, who had retrograded to false hair in Romola's absence, but now drew it off again and declared she would not mind being gray, if her dear child would stay with her.1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Romola. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book III, page 260
5. (intransitive) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
6. (intransitive) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.

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