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/rɪsˈidɪŋ/ /risˈidɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Recede v. t. To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

Recede v. i. (past & past part. receded; pres. part. receding)

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. "Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the insulted shore." "All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center."

To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.

Synonyms: To retire; retreat; return; retrograde; withdraw; desist.

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Etymology of 'Receding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Receding" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the permanence of life and the manifestations of progress, time appears to us as the great producer. Destroyer of all that is, producer of all that is to be, time has thus a double form. It is a mysterious tide, ever rising and ever receding; it is the power of death, and it is the power of life. All this, Gentlemen, is for the imagination. In the view of a calm reason, time is the simply negative condition of all development, as space is the negative condition ...

— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville

... American attitude then and long afterwards —indeed, up to a time well within living memory—was that Indians were a kind of human vermin to be exterminated without mercy, unless, of course, more money was to be made out of them alive. The result was an endless struggle along the ever-receding frontier of the West. And just at this particular time the 'Conspiracy of Pontiac' had brought about something like a real war. The story of this great effort of the Indians to stem the encroachments of the exterminating colonists is told in another chronicle ...

— The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton • William Wood

... Emmeline, every drop of blood receding from her cheeks. "O, Cassy, do tell me what ...

— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... side, a blaze of silver. I took hold of the line very gently and led the fish a little closer in. The water was about six inches deep. There were waves beating in—a miniature surf. And I calculated on the receding of a wave. Then with one quick pull I slid our beautiful quarry up on the coral sand. The instant he was out of the water the leader snapped. I was ready for this, too. But at that it was an awful instant! As the wave came ...

— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey

... chemistry of such mingling emotions there were women who stood in the frontal crowds of the sidewalks stifling hysteria, or ran after in terror at sight of one so personally hers, receding in that great impersonal wave of ...

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