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was too busy trying to disentangle herself from her seat-belt. — A Ring And
A Promise;
• (untangle)- release from entanglement of difficulty;
• (tangle) – to mix together or intertwine in a confused mass; snarl; There
were six of them, curled up around each other like a tangle of hairy rope. —
The Legacy of Heorot;
• (entangle)- to twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl;
Friends engender obligations and obligations entangle life. — The Miko;
recidivism = backsliding > backslide = recidivate = retrogress = relapse : revert
• (recidivism)- repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime, (
); Their recidivism is not due to an inability to distinguish
between right and wrong. — Studies in Forensic Psychiatry;
• (backslide)- a falling back in principle or practice; a lapse in or
abandonment of religious obligation; apostasy; In our journeying to and fro,
we found some honest-hearted Friends, who appeared to be concerned for
the cause of truth among a backsliding people. — The Journal of John
Woolman;
• (recidivate)- to relapse into bad habits, sinful behavior, or undesirable
activities;
• (retrogess)- to return to a previous pattern of behavior, especially to
return to criminal habits;
• (relapse)- to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition; We
don't stand still or retrogress; we keep going on and up. — The Drums of
Jeopardy;
• (relapse)- to fall or slide back into a former state; I feared a relapse, and
unwilling to run the risk, I preferred abstinence to exposing Theresa to a
similar mortification. — The Confessions of J J Rousseau;
• (revert)- to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.,
( ); After 3 generations the property reverted to
the landowners;
crime, types of felony, misdemeanor
felony > felon = outlaw = malefactor = crook = convict = offender : desperado
: ruffian = hooligan = roughneck = rowdy
• (felon)- Law. a person who has committed a felony, (