Relapse vs Backgain - What's the difference?
relapse | backgain |
To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
(intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.
To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
The act or situation of relapsing.
(medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
(obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
Receding; going back.
Not thriving in health or in worldly concerns.
As nouns the difference between relapse and backgain
is that relapse is the act or situation of relapsing while backgain is a relapse.As a verb relapse
is to fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.As an adjective backgain is
receding; going back.relapse
English
Verb
(relaps)- (Dryden)
Noun
(en noun)- Alas! from what high hope to what relapse / Unlooked for are we fallen! — Milton.
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English
Etymology 1
Alteration of .Alternative forms
* backgaun, back-gang, back-gannin * backgane (Scotland)Etymology 2
Alteration of .Alternative forms
* back-ga'en, back-gaenAdjective
(en adjective)- a backgain family
