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Definition
to return to an undesirable previous condition — especially illness, addiction, or bad behavior
- The next day the doctors were back; Tom had relapsed.Chapter 22 (91% in)
relapsed = returned to an undesirable previous condition
- He handed in his resignation at once—and that night the Judge suffered a relapse and died.Chapter 22 (24% in)
- Poor lads! they—like Tom—had suffered a relapse.Chapter 22 (**% in)
relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
There are no more uses of "relapse" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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