Reverse Dictionary: RELAPSE

NOUNS
► AGAIN-FALLING relapse → 1340 obs.
► BACK-CA’ a reverse, a relapse → 1830 Sc.
► BACKCAST an unexpected blow, a misfortune, reverse; used often of a relapse during illness or a moral backsliding → 1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BACKENING relapse in illness → 1878 Eng. dial.
► BACK-FLING a relapse during illness → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACK-GAIN a relapse in illness → 1898 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACKGANGIN a relapse → 1819 Sc.
► BACK-KNOCK a relapse during illness → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACKSET of  health, worldly circumstances, vegetation, etc.: anything that checks one’s course or causes a relapse; a relapse in illness → 1721
► BACK-THRUST a relapse during illness → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACK-TURN a relapse → 1932 Sc.
► CAST BACK a relapse → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THROW-BACK anything which retards progress, esp. a relapse in illness → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

PREPOSITIONS
► BACKWARDING relapsing into sickness → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► BACKEN to get worse, to have a relapse in illness → 1891 Eng. dial.
► BE THROWN BACK to suffer a relapse in illness → 1899 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GET THROWN BACK to suffer a relapse in illness → 1899 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GO BACKWARD to recede, to retreat; to relapse, to backslide → c1400 obs.
► TAKE A BACKSET to relapse during convalescence → 1880 Amer. dial.