English-French translations for relapse

• rechute
  Entre-temps, le pays a connu une forte rechute. In the meantime, there has been a massive relapse.
  Il est toutefois loin d'être totalement remis sur pied et pourrait faire une rechute à tout moment. However, he is far from making a full recovery and he could have a relapse at any time.
• rechuter
• récidiver
• récidivisme
• replonger

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