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Definition of Recede
1. Verb. Pull back or move away or backward. "The limo pulled away from the curb"
Related verbs: Back Away, Back Out, Crawfish, Crawfish Out, Pull Back, Pull In One's Horns, Retreat, Withdraw
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Fall Back, Retreat, Retrograde, Back Down, Back Off, Back Up
Derivative terms: Pullback, Receding, Withdrawal
Antonyms: Advance
2. Verb. Retreat.
Generic synonyms: Regress, Retrograde, Retrogress
Antonyms: Gain
Derivative terms: Receding, Recession
3. Verb. Become faint or more distant. "The unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older"
Definition of Recede
1. v. i. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
2. v. t. To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.
Definition of Recede
1. Verb. To move back, to move away. ¹
2. Verb. To take back. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recede
1. to move back or away [v -CEDED, -CEDING, -CEDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recede
Literary usage of Recede
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly, United States Congress Senate (1881)
"That the Senate recede from its amendment to No. 3, in relation to item 4,
concerning the Governor's messenger. Second. That the House concur in No. ..."
2. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"A motion to recede being negatived, does not amount to a positive vote to insist,
... To recede. 1 You may then either 4th. To insist. V insist or adhere. ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"These upper heights, however, rapidly recede from the river bank, ... But near Dr.
Taylor's house, where the upper heights commence to recede from the river ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... different Protestant sects—according as they are more or less faithful to the
Protestant principle, they recede from or approach the Catholic position. ..."
5. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1837)
"... born to advance the landmarks of knowledge or skill, will recede from step to
step, till it loses even the secondary merits of imitation and industry. ..."
6. Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales: With an Introductory by William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips (1822)
"... as they are of less ancient formation and recede from the primitive chains,
forming the edges of the basins in which they have been deposited. ..."
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