BACKSLIDING

Meaning of BACKSLIDING in English

/ ˈbækslaɪdɪŋ; NAmE / noun

[ U ] the situation when sb fails to do sth that they agreed to do and returns to their former bad behaviour

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

BACKSLIDING — (n.) The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.
Английский словарь Webster
BACKSLIDING — (a.) Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.
Английский словарь Webster
BACKSLIDING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Backslide
Английский словарь Webster
BACKSLIDING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Backslide
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BACKSLIDING — ( n. ) The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BACKSLIDING — ( a. ) Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BACKSLIDING — n. act of sliding backwards; deterioration; relapsing into error, returning to sin
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BACKSLIDING — adj slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. 2. backsliding ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of backslide. 3. backsliding ·noun …
Webster English vocab
BACKSLIDING — If you accuse someone of backsliding , you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BACKSLIDING — If you accuse someone of ~, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
BACKSLIDING — Synonyms and related words : Adamic, about-face, amorality, apostasy, apostate, atheism, atheistic, backing, backset, backslide, backward motion, backward step, betrayal, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BACKSLIDING — n. Function: noun Synonyms: LAPSE 2, relapse
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
BACKSLIDING — n. Apostasy.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
BACKSLIDING — noun Synonyms: lapse 2, relapse
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
DEFECTION — n defection (= desertion, backsliding)
Interlingua English vocab
RELAPSE — I. noun see: sleep Date: 15th century the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding, a recurrence of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BACKSLIDE — intransitive verb (backslid; -slid or backslidden; backsliding) Date: 1552 to lapse morally or in the practice of religion, to revert …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
RELAPSE — I. rə̇ˈlaps, rēˈ-, ˈrēˌl- noun Etymology: Latin relapsus, past participle of relabi to slide back, sink back, relapse, from re- …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BACKSLIDE — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ also (ˈ) ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ intransitive verb ( backslid ; backslid or backslidden ; backsliding ; backslides ) Etymology: back (II) …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
JACK MORMON — noun Usage: sometimes capitalized J & usually capitalized M 1. : a non-Mormon living in a Mormon community and sympathetic …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IMPIOUS — ˈimpēəs, (ˈ)im|pīəs adjective Etymology: Latin impius, from in- in- (I) + pius pious — more at pious : not pious …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RELAPSE — (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state …
Английский словарь Webster
RECIDIVATION — (n.) A falling back; a backsliding.
Английский словарь Webster
DEFECTION — (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which …
Английский словарь Webster
RELAPSE — ( v. ) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RECIDIVATION — ( n. ) A falling back; a backsliding.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
DEFECTION — ( n. ) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BACKSLIDE — — backslider , n. /bak"sluyd'/ , v. , backslid, backslid or backslidden, backsliding , n. v.i. 1. to relapse into …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
RECIDIVISM — n. habitual relapse, continuous backsliding, habitual regression (esp. into a life of crime)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
RELAPSE — I. ri-ˈlaps, ˈrē-ˌ noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin relapsus, from Latin relabi to slide back, from re- + …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BACKSLIDE — [verb] [I] [past:] backslid - to go back to doing something bad when you have been doing something good, esp. …
Cambridge English vocab

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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