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present participle and gerund of recede examples
comparative more receding, superlative most receding
Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing. examples
That recedes. examples
plural recedings
The action of something that recedes. quotations examples
the great overflowings and recedings of the waters
1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler, page 205
A recessed part. quotations examples
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 […]
1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, page 20