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Receding

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing.

    "a receding hairline"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The action of something that recedes.

    "the great overflowings and recedings of the waters"

  2. 2
    the act of becoming more distant wordnet
  3. 3
    A recessed part.

    "The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]"

  4. 4
    a slow or gradual disappearance wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of recede form-of, gerund, participle, present

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