revert vs retrogress

revert and retrogress both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
revert	No	No	Yes	No
retrogress	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, retrogress is a hyponym of revert; that is, retrogress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than revert:

Other hyponyms of revert include fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse, resile, go back, recover, recuperate.

revert (verb)	retrogress (verb)
go back to a previous state	go back to bad behavior
undergo reversion, as in a mutation	get worse or fall back to a previous condition