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We think the answer is "REVERTING" which means:

noun
• • A failure to maintain a higher state
adjective satellite
• • Tending to return to an earlier state
verb
• • (now rare) to turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
• • To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
• • To cause to return to a former condition.
• • (now rare) to return; to come back.
• • To return to the possession of.
• • To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
• • To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
• • To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
• • To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
• • To take up again or return to a previous topic.
• • (in muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born muslim) to convert to islam.
• • (originally india, now also singapore, malaysia, hong kong) to reply (to correspondence, for example).
• • To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

An example sentence would be:

• • "She tried to control her temper, but eventually ended up reverting to her usual behavior."
• • "After years of progress, the economic situation in the country is reverting to its previous state."

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