receding

Speech parts

1. receding - Noun

2. receding - Adjective

3. receding - Verb

5. receding - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Recede

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

recession fadeout down ebbing falling decrease retreat withdrawal withdraw retire contraction lowering retiring disappearance diminish
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Antonyms

increasing forward advance ongoing emerging approaching
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Hypernyms

withdrawal disappearance

Phrases with the word

receding tide hair receding receding velocity with receding hair

Examples

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. William Gibson

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. David Foster Wallace

One shouldn't worry about taking pictures or making tape recordings. Those are superfluities of sedate lives. One should worry about the spirit, which is always receding. Carlos Castaneda

It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? Jack Kerouac

The celebrated earthy tactility of Rabelais is a massive backwash of receding manuscript culture. Marshall McLuhan

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Will Durant

Close letter words and terms

recede from view recede with receder receding tide receding velocity recedingly