English-Finnish translations for relapse

• kokea takaisku
• langeta
  Lankesin ja loukkasin polveni.
  Ikäihmisen lankeamisesta saattaa seurata lonkkamurtuma.
  ~ polvilleen
• pahentua
• paheta
• uusiutua
• uusiutua paheta

Definition of relapse

• To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice
• To recur; to worsen, be aggravated
• The act or situation of relapsing
• An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement

Examples

• He has improved recently but keeps relapsing into states of utter confusion
• to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism
• to relapse into slumber after being disturbed
• a drug relapse

Related words

• prelapsarian
• relapsed
• relapsing
• relapsing fever
• relapsed heretic