Progress and Turning back

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Progress verb - To become mature.

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Turning back is an antonym for progress.

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Progress is an antonym for turning back in topics: deteriorate, return to earlier way of doing things, return to an earlier.

A particularly big example being Happy Happy Village, which is slowly turning back from the strange cult town it was into a normal town as you progress through the game.

Source: Welcome to Corneria

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Turning back and Progress. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/progress/turning_back

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