Recede
verb
To move back from a specific position or condition.
The flood waters started to recede when it stopped raining.
Often appears as...
- recede slowly
- recede gradually
verb
To become less intense or severe.
The patient's symptoms began to recede after the medication was administered.
Often appears as...
- symptoms recede
- pain recedes
verb
To slope backward.
His hairline started to recede as he aged.
Often appears as...
- hairline recedes
- gum recedes
verb
To move back from a specific position or condition.
The flood waters started to recede when it stopped raining.
Often appears as...
- recede slowly
- recede gradually
verb
To become less intense or severe.
The patient's symptoms began to recede after the medication was administered.
Often appears as...
- symptoms recede
- pain recedes
verb
To slope backward.
His hairline started to recede as he aged.
Often appears as...
- hairline recedes
- gum recedes
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Used to describe something physically moving back or away.
As the tide receded, the hidden beach was revealed.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Fast
Receding often implies a gradual or slow movement, not abrupt.
The shadows receded as the sun rose higher.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Used to describe something physically moving back or away.
As the tide receded, the hidden beach was revealed.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Fast
Receding often implies a gradual or slow movement, not abrupt.
The shadows receded as the sun rose higher.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Used to describe something physically moving back or away.
As the tide receded, the hidden beach was revealed.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Fast
Receding often implies a gradual or slow movement, not abrupt.
The shadows receded as the sun rose higher.
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Video examples
Inside the black hole...
And you wind up with some of the gas moving towards us below and receding from us on the top. And just as the train whistle has a higher pitch when it's coming towards you, there's more energy from the gas coming towards us than going away from us. You see the bottom part brighter because the light is actually being boosted in our direction. And how physically big is that?
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Earthrise: The Story of...
were the first men to escape from the earth so to speak is there I'm sure you're gonna be asked this over and over again but I think everybody wonders about it is there some kind of a psychological wrench when you see the earth actually receding when you're alone in the universe and the only spot
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Why we make bad...
Now, why in the world do you get this pattern of results? These guys can tell us. What you see here are two lads, one of them larger than the the fireman and the fiddler. They are going to recede towards the vanishing point in the horizon, and I want you to notice two things.
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Mapping wilderness PIPE...
cross this remote wilderness were there two reasons first to undertake and completes the most comprehensive biodiversity survey ever undertaken in this remote wilderness we do this during the receding floods when all wildlife is concentrated onto the main channels we
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Donald Sadoway: The...
and recedes about half a mile -- row after row of cells that, inside, resemble Volta's battery, with three important differences. Volta's battery works at room temperature. It's fitted with solid electrodes
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Killer Tsunamis PIPE...
advances like a wall of water that crashes over the coastline and everything in its way reaching even as far as a mind inland more damage is caused when the wave recedes dragging everything in it
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Tsunami 101 PIPE National...
advances like a wall of water that crashes over the coastline and everything in its way reaching even as far in the mind more damage is caused when the wave recedes dragging everything in it back
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How the world’s tallest...
to minimize local wind forces. Every several floors, one of the wings recedes slightly, forming a series of setbacks in a clockwise pattern. This spiral shape disperses air currents,
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"Everything happens for...
and I clung to it. They said, "When the feelings recede like the tides, they will leave an imprint." And they do. And it is not proof of anything, and it is nothing to boast about.
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The Land Re-Emerges PIPE...
meanwhile the cob are on the move again their world is expanding rapidly as the floodwaters recede a huge green carpet
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Inside the black hole...
And you wind up with some of the gas moving towards us below and receding from us on the top. And just as the train whistle has a higher pitch when it's coming towards you, there's more energy from the gas coming towards us than going away from us. You see the bottom part brighter because the light is actually being boosted in our direction. And how physically big is that?
Video examples
Earthrise: The Story of...
were the first men to escape from the earth so to speak is there I'm sure you're gonna be asked this over and over again but I think everybody wonders about it is there some kind of a psychological wrench when you see the earth actually receding when you're alone in the universe and the only spot
Video examples
Why we make bad...
Now, why in the world do you get this pattern of results? These guys can tell us. What you see here are two lads, one of them larger than the the fireman and the fiddler. They are going to recede towards the vanishing point in the horizon, and I want you to notice two things.
Video examples
Mapping wilderness PIPE...
cross this remote wilderness were there two reasons first to undertake and completes the most comprehensive biodiversity survey ever undertaken in this remote wilderness we do this during the receding floods when all wildlife is concentrated onto the main channels we
Video examples
Donald Sadoway: The...
and recedes about half a mile -- row after row of cells that, inside, resemble Volta's battery, with three important differences. Volta's battery works at room temperature. It's fitted with solid electrodes
Video examples
Killer Tsunamis PIPE...
advances like a wall of water that crashes over the coastline and everything in its way reaching even as far as a mind inland more damage is caused when the wave recedes dragging everything in it
Video examples
Tsunami 101 PIPE National...
advances like a wall of water that crashes over the coastline and everything in its way reaching even as far in the mind more damage is caused when the wave recedes dragging everything in it back
Video examples
How the world’s tallest...
to minimize local wind forces. Every several floors, one of the wings recedes slightly, forming a series of setbacks in a clockwise pattern. This spiral shape disperses air currents,
Video examples
"Everything happens for...
and I clung to it. They said, "When the feelings recede like the tides, they will leave an imprint." And they do. And it is not proof of anything, and it is nothing to boast about.
Video examples
The Land Re-Emerges PIPE...
meanwhile the cob are on the move again their world is expanding rapidly as the floodwaters recede a huge green carpet
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Quote examples
Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.
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Joel Edgerton
Australian Actor
Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
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Jonathan Franzen
American Novelist
One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
American Poet
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Robert Burton
English Writer
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
British Actor
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
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Mark Knopfler
British Musician
Instead of receding, the past actually becomes more important. That's what will happen to you. It sounds unlikely, but the past actually changes complexion as you get older.
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Nathan Englander
American Writer
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
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Elizabeth Warren
American Public Servant
I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
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e. e. cummings
American Poet
Nothing recedes like progress.
Quote examples
Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.
Quote examples
Joel Edgerton
Australian Actor
Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
Quote examples
Jonathan Franzen
American Novelist
One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.
Quote examples
Gwendolyn Brooks
American Poet
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Quote examples
Robert Burton
English Writer
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
British Actor
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
Quote examples
Mark Knopfler
British Musician
Instead of receding, the past actually becomes more important. That's what will happen to you. It sounds unlikely, but the past actually changes complexion as you get older.
Quote examples
Nathan Englander
American Writer
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Warren
American Public Servant
I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
Quote examples
e. e. cummings
American Poet
Nothing recedes like progress.
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