backslideverb [ I ]
uk/ˈbæk.slaɪd/us/ˈbæk.slaɪd/backslidto go back to doing something bad when you have been doing something good, especially to stop working hard or to fail to do something that you had agreed to do:
My diet was going well, but I've been backsliding a little recently.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Deteriorating and making worse
- a step backwards idiom
- a turn of the screw idiom
- add
- afford
- aggravate
- be half the dancer, writer, etc. you used to be idiom
- compound
- decline
- degrade
- dog
- downgrade
- downhill
- exacerbate
- fan the flames idiom
- retrograde
- retrogress
- run yourself down
- seed
- slip
- slippery slope
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