Recede
/ɹɪˈsiːd/ verb
verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
"Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from th' insulted shore."
- 2 become faint or more distant wordnet
- 3 To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
"to recede conquered territory"
- 4 retreat wordnet
- 5 To take back.
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- 6 pull back or move away or backward wordnet
Example
More examples"My memory of her has begun to recede."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English receden, from Middle French receder and its etymon Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), from re- + cedere (“to go”).