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third-person singular simple present recedes, present participle receding, simple past and past participle receded
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. quotations examples
Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from th' insulted shore.
1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
All bodies moved circularly have a perpetual endeavour to recede from the center.
1725, Richard Bentley, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor. examples
To take back. examples