Progress
Progress verb - To become mature.
Usage example: generally a species progresses from simple forms to more specialized forms
Revert
Revert verb - To go back to a previous and usually lower state or level.
Usage example: after the national emergency had passed, the political parties abandoned their shotgun unity and reverted to their partisan squabbling
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Big Bad: Hades, the leader of the KVA, seeks to halt humanity's technological progress and revert it to a 'natural state' with terrorist attacks all over the world.
- To some degree this trope is justified by the setting's history; it seems every few thousand years some sort of catastrophe causes empires to crumble and progress to revert to more primitive times.
Source: Medieval Stasis -
Brown Note: Occasionally there will be a screech that causes the protagonists to be hit with a splitting headache, and seems to progress their mutation into a Haunted (Joseph and Sebastian briefly turn after experiencing one, but are able to revert back to normal afterwards).
Source: Video Game / The Evil Within
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