🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

पतन होना

Pronunciation / Transliteration: patan hona

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Retrogress/ˌrɛt.rəˈɡrɛs/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"नैतिक मूल्यों में गिरावट से समाज का पतन होने लगता है।"

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To return to a former, worse, or less developed state.

    "After a brief period of economic recovery, the country began to retrogress into high inflation and poverty."
  2. 2

    To move backward or in a reverse direction.

    "The spacecraft's orbit appeared to retrogress relative to the planet's rotation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb retrogradi, formed from retro- meaning 'backward' and gradi meaning 'to walk or step'. It entered English in the late 16th century via back-formation from retrogression, shifting from an astronomical sense of moving backward to a general meaning of declining to a worse state.

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