Short "hint"
To fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc; To fall back into illness after convalescence or apparent recovery; To fall back into vice, wrongdoing, or error; backslide
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Used as a verb, listen here, it means: To fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc; To fall back into illness after convalescence or apparent recovery; To fall back into vice, wrongdoing, or error; backslide. Used as a noun, listen here, it means: An act or instance of falling back into a former state or practice; Also: A return of a disease or illness after partial recovery from it.
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