regress(RETURN TO WORSE STATE)formal
C2[ I ]
to continue gradually: 缓慢进行
As the war progressed, more and more countries became involved.随着战争的推进，越来越多的国家卷入其中。
We started off talking about the weather and gradually the conversation progressed to politics.我们从谈论天气开始，话题逐渐转向政治。
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to move something to a more advanced or developed state:
I decided to do a postgraduate course because it's a good way to progress your career.
I am anxious to progress discussions on the two projects as soon as possible.
[ I ]
to move forward:
As you progress up the valley, views open up.
There were no signs indicating that workers should not progress beyond that point.
As his illness progressed, he made fewer entries in his diary.随着病情加重，他日记记得越来越少。
The building project is progressing well.
Unfortunately this is a disease which progresses very rapidly.
Whenever I talk to him we never seem to progress beyond the weather and holidays.
He started as an apprentice but quickly progressed to foreman.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making progress and advancing
adaptive evolution
advance the cause
advanced
advancement
age
boom
evolve
evolved
flourish
flower
formatively
from A to Bidiom
mature
punctuated equilibrium
rebuild
regenerate
ripen
ripeness
spread
wing

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Continue & last
Advancing and moving forward

Examples of progressing

progressing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The graph is constructed from the goal, progressing toward known values.
His definition of modernism is flexible and, in effect, plural, since he describes it as progressing through four separate stages.
To date hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presenting in infancy has been associated with a poor prognosis, often progressing to severe congestive heart failure and death.
These results suggest that the delayed, damage-induced expression of notch3 is localized to retinal cells progressing through the cell cycle.
It becomes clear that there are vibrant debates taking place, and that students are as important in progressing these debates as are scholarly enquiries.
Indeed, several perennial grain breeding programs have been initiated and are progressing well.
The decree was not the result of an institutional conflict since the debate of the bill had been initiated and was progressing smoothly.
Mandatory computation must be favored over speculative computation, at least to the extent that some mandatory computation is always progressing.
By contrast, silk-gauze-weaving receded into insignificance with progressing age (2.1 % among those aged 40 and more).
Dreams are temporally progressing "being-in-the-world" experiences generated inside the brain.
And as the modernization of humanity is inexorably progressing such studies will greatly increase in importance.
For the group progressing to metastatic disease, lifetime was estimated for the different starting points in the model.
Moreover, symptoms mostly develop after the disease has been progressing for some time, which makes the study of the cause of the disease more difficult.
If successful, the technology moves on to application in humans, progressing from controlled experimental settings out into the clinical environment.
We see this variant regressing in variables 1- 6 and progressing in variables 7-14.
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