recede
[verb]
Synonyms: fall back, abate, ebb, regress, retire, retreat, return, subside, withdraw

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Antonyms: proceed, advance
Related Words: regress, retrogress, depart, retire, withdraw

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

re‧cede /rɪˈsiːd/ verb [intransitive]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: recedere, from cedere 'to go']

1. if something you can see or hear recedes, it gets further and further away until it disappears
recede into
footsteps receding into the distance

2. if a memory, feeling, or possibility recedes, it gradually goes away:
The pain in his head gradually receded.

3. if water recedes, it moves back from an area that it was covering:
The flood waters finally began to recede in November.

4. if your hair recedes, you gradually lose the hair at the front of your head:
He was in his mid-forties, with a receding hairline.

5. receding chin a chin that slopes backwards

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

recede
verb
ADV. a bit, a little, slightly His fine dark hair was receding a little.
further | gradually, slowly The pain was gradually receding.
fast, rapidly The January flood waters receded as fast as they had risen.
PREP. from These worries now receded from his mind.
PHRASES recede into the background/distance His footsteps receded into the distance.

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