Modifying Another Word

• back: I think the we are seeing the society retrograde back into a religious stage.

• also: With Jupiter also retrograde ( from 5th ), the effect of pooling resources could be considered.

• seriously: So I strongly believe that not having a midwife-led unit on Portsea Island would be a seriously retrograde step.

• very: Gerald Adler, a retired academic, said: " It is a very, very retrograde step.

• entirely: As an esthetic or poetic this is entirely retrograde and reveals a mistaken view of the creative process.

Modifies a noun

• cholangiopancreatography: Does the procedure, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography give you acute pancreatitis?

• ejaculation: There is no hazard to your health from retrograde ejaculation.

• cholangio-pancreatography: ERCP: Georgia Tech's Biomedical interactive center has produced the Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography surgical simulator.

• amnesia: There is some degree of retrograde amnesia in children.

• orbit: Could it be Nibiru, a brown dwarf in a retrograde elliptical orbit around the Sun?

• motion: The retrograde motion of a superior planet in the sky.

Used with adjective complement

• turn: About three times a year, Mercury turns retrograde.

• go: What does Mars going retrograde do to all of this?