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Noun backsliding has 1 sense
- backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting - a failure to maintain a higher state
--1 is a kind of failure
--1 has particulars: recidivism
Verb backslide has 1 sense
- lapse, backslide - drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
--1 is one way to slip, drop off, drop away, fall away
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