recedes
Synonyms
Examples
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
Nothing recedes like progress.
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
He who does not advance recedes.