recede

Verb

Meaning

To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.

To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

withdraw retreat return retire retrograde drop off fall back move back pull back draw back pull away ret set back lower
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Antonyms

mount excel well come burgeon rise
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Hypernyms

change move travel retrograde regress go

Hyponyms

retreat retrograde ebb back down back up fall back

Phrases with the word

recede from view recede from to recede recede with

Derivatives

receded receding

Anagrams

decree Creede

Examples

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. Jack Kerouac

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth. Thorstein Veblen

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. Henry Mayhew

The tide of war dose not recede just be cause we wish it to. John McCain

If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population. But our lot is cast, and we cannot recede. Robert Peel

Not to advance is to recede. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

reccy Recea-Cristur receave recede from recede from view recede with