Verb
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 dictionaryWhat 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