Synonym: hash over, regress, rehash, retral, retreat, retrogress, retrogressive. Similar words: program, programme, grade, grader, programming, degrade, upgrade, retrospect. Meaning: ['retrəʊgreɪd] 
v. 1. move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies 2. move in a direction contrary to the usual one 3. move back 4. go back over 5. get worse or fall back to a previous condition. adj. 1. moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth 2. of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma 3. going from better to worse 4. moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
v. 1. move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies 2. move in a direction contrary to the usual one 3. move back 4. go back over 5. get worse or fall back to a previous condition. adj. 1. moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth 2. of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma 3. going from better to worse 4. moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction. 
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1. Closing the factory would be a retrograde step.
2. The closure of the factory is a retrograde step .
3. He said it would be a retrograde step to remove single parent benefit.
4. The slow, retrograde axial rotation of Venus is a puzzle to which I shall return in section 4.2.
5. The closure of the plant is a retrograde step, as that technology is very much needed.sentencedict.com
6. Venus's rotation is retrograde.
7. However, the recent lunar eclipse and Mercury in retrograde motion signify the financial position is much too uncertain.
8. The nature of the retrograde messenger may give clues to the processes responsible for the sustained increase in transmitter release.
9. I was told this was a retrograde step: what I was advocating was narrow nationalism in an age of increasing internationalism.
10. The appointment of Valuev was not quite the retrograde step that some contemporaries thought it to be.
11. The retrograde rotation of Venus came as a considerable surprise.
12. The remainder is a retrograde of the same series a semitone lower.
13. Retrograde pyelography could locate accurately for the carcinoma.
14. He has retrograde amnesia(sentencedict.com), acute psychological suppression.
15. The rotation in the elliptic is retrograde.
16. Root canal was prepared with gradually retrograde method.
17. This retrograde conduction does not always take place.
18. A new calculation method of formation retrograde condensate oil saturation has been established.
19. Parkinson's disease is a commonly encountered central nervous retrograde affection in elder persons.
20. The Prime Minister described transferring education to central government funding as "a retrograde step".
21. The closure of the factories is seen as a retrograde step .
22. In view of the benevolent rule of the communes this might seem to have been retrograde step.
23. Mr. Hurd I do not think that it would be a retrograde step.
24. The global health scene has been characterised by major steps forward but with some disturbing retrograde features.
25. The trade in live exports will begin again which is a major retrograde step.
26. The diagnosis was made in 57 patients by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and in three by percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.
27. On the other hand patients presenting with very advanced disease were not included through compassionate avoidance of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
28. Six patients, all with malignant strictures, had bile samples taken at both endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.
29. To eliminate the possibility of this would seem to be a retrograde step.
30. All patients underwent an abdominal ultrasound examination before endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
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