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relapse

1 verb
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability
re‧lapse1 [intransitive]
1MI to become ill again after you have seemed to improve
relapse into
We were afraid he might relapse into a coma.
2 to start to behave badly again
relapse into
Clara soon relapsed into her old ways.
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