Usually means: Withdraw or pull back gradually.
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  1. recede: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recede: Merriam-Webster
  3. recede: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. recede, recede: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. recede: Collins English Dictionary
  6. recede: Vocabulary.com
  7. Recede, recede: Wordnik
  8. recede: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. recede: Wiktionary
  10. recede: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. recede: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. recede: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. recede: Dictionary.com
  14. recede: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. recede: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Recede: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. recede: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. recede: Rhymezone
  19. recede: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. recede: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. recede: FreeDictionary.org
  22. recede: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. recede: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. recede: Legal dictionary

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  1. recede: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (recede)

▸ verb:  To move back; to retreat; to withdraw; to retrocede.
▸ verb:  To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
▸ verb:  To take back.

Similar:
retreat, draw back, retire, withdraw, pull away, lose, drop off, fall behind, fall back, move back, more...

Opposite:
advance, progress

Types:
recession, retreat, withdraw, abandon, withdrawal, abandonment, more...

Phrases:
recede from, opposite of recede, recede rapidly, recede gradually, more...

Adjectives:
other, latter, future, present, past, hostile, last, human, blue, christian, high

Colors:
    gray,     taupe,     beige,     sand,     stone, more...


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Similar:
retreat, draw back, retire, withdraw, pull away, lose, drop off, fall behind, fall back, move back, more...

Opposite:
advance, progress

Types:
recession, retreat, withdraw, abandon, withdrawal, abandonment, more...

Phrases:
recede from, opposite of recede, recede rapidly, recede gradually, more...

Adjectives:
other, latter, future, present, past, hostile, last, human, blue, christian, high

Colors:
    gray,     taupe,     beige,     sand,     stone, more...



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