Usually means: Moving back or withdrawing gradually.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word receding:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. receding: Merriam-Webster
  2. receding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. receding: Collins English Dictionary
  4. receding: Vocabulary.com
  5. Receding, receding: Wordnik
  6. receding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. receding: Wiktionary
  8. Receding, receding: Dictionary.com
  9. receding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Receding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. receding: Rhymezone
  12. Receding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. receding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. receding: FreeDictionary.org
  15. receding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. receding: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. receding: Legal dictionary

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  1. receding: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (receding)

▸ adjective:  Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing.
▸ adjective:  That recedes.
▸ noun:  The action of something that recedes.
▸ noun:  A recessed part.

Similar:
retreating, recession, backward, fadeout, retiring, low, ebb, decrescent, retrocedent, retrograde, more...

Opposite:
advancing

Types:
fading, dwindling, ebbing, waning, declining, more...

Phrases:
receding from, receding hairline, receding hairlines, opposite of receding, receding disappearing, more...

Adjectives:
phonological, more, gradual, universal, less, phonemic, slow, last, earth, phonetic, ever

Colors:
    light gray,     pale blue,     soft lavender,     dusty rose,     misty teal, more...



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Similar:
retreating, recession, backward, fadeout, retiring, low, ebb, decrescent, retrocedent, retrograde, more...

Opposite:
advancing

Types:
fading, dwindling, ebbing, waning, declining, more...

Phrases:
receding from, receding hairline, receding hairlines, opposite of receding, receding disappearing, receding disappearing evaporate, more...

Adjectives:
phonological, more, gradual, universal, less, phonemic, slow, last, earth, phonetic, ever

Colors:
    light gray,     pale blue,     soft lavender,     dusty rose,     misty teal, more...



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