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Adjective receding has 2 senses
- receding, retiring - moving toward a position farther from the front; "the receding glaciers of the last ice age"; "retiring fogs revealed the rocky coastline"
Antonym: advancing (indirect, via retreating)
- receding - (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back
Antonym: forward (indirect, via backward)
Noun receding has 2 senses
- receding, fadeout - a slow or gradual disappearance
--1 is a kind of disappearance
- receding, recession - the act of becoming more distant
--2 is a kind of withdrawal
Verb recede has 4 senses
- withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back - pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- recede, fall back, retire - move back and away from; "The enemy fell back"
--2 is one way to withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back
Antonyms: advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recede - retreat
--3 is one way to regress, retrograde, retrogress
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- recede - become faint or more distant; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older"
--4 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
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