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  • The doctor had said she could have a relapse.  (source)
    relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
  • I hadn't mentioned his relapse to her, mostly since it had passed without any significant drama.  (source)
  • Her large shapely body seemed to relapse naturally into stillness.  (source)
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  • —whenever he subsided into affection, he called me Pip, and whenever he relapsed into politeness he called me sir;  (source)
    relapsed = returned to an undesirable previous condition
  • He handed in his resignation at once—and that night the Judge suffered a relapse and died.  (source)
    relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
  • Then checking himself and relapsing into his own tongue: "What's up on the train?"  (source)
    relapsing = returning to a less undesirable previous condition
  • He had remarried, stopped drinking (more or less) and suffered only occasional relapses.†  (source)
    relapses = returns to an undesirable previous condition
  • Fanny was silent, and Miss Crawford relapsed into thoughtfulness, till suddenly looking up at the end of a few minutes, she exclaimed, "Ah! here he is."  (source)
    relapsed = returned to an less desirable previous condition
  • Then she was not doing so well, she'd had a relapse.†  (source)
    relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
  • This effect is strong enough that when smokers with a history of psychiatric problems give up cigarettes, they run a sizable risk of relapsing into depression.†  (source)
    relapsing = returning to an undesirable previous condition
  • Sometimes, when I have relapses of my old demon, I lie in the crook of his arm and he comforts me this way, talking to me all night long to stave off the bad dreams.†  (source)
    relapses = returns to an undesirable previous condition
  • Lucas had relapsed, and she said it with a sad smile and a little shrug, the way you might say an alcoholic had relapsed.†  (source)
    relapsed = returned to an undesirable previous condition
  • Seemed to think it might, ah, bring about a relapse, tempt me into my old ways.†  (source)
    relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
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