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Answer for the clue "Moved backwards ", 9 letters:
regressed

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Word definitions for regressed in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regress \Re*gress"\ (r?*gr?s"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Regressed (-gr?st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Regressing .] To go back; to return to a former place or state. --Sir T. Browne.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
That has been subject to regression v (en-past of: regress )

Usage examples of regressed.

They might have regressed on other occasions, so this time they had slipped quickly and eagerly into that altered state.

Peyser, but it did not look as much like the regressed Jordan Coombs as Loman expected.

He suspected they had regressed in order to toy with the girl, just for the thrill of it, and while playing with her had unintentionally given her a chance to escape.

They regressed her a few minutes and had her approach that moment again.

He knew that she dreaded what she might discover when she was regressed, but she was not afraid to make that journey.

Tolliver had regressed, sunken into his inside, or into darkest despond.

Nothing, until we come and ask you if you would like to be regressed another time.

I shall ask for volun be put into deep hypnosis and regressed if poible.

The latter occurred because as the sea regressed, large back-swamps developed when the pattern of stream drainage changed.