Definitions for recede

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recede re·cede

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IPA: /rɪˈsid/

Recede is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in recede (cdeeer).

Definitions for recede

verb (used with object)

1. to cede back; yield or grant to a former possessor.

verb (used without object)

1. to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
2. to become more distant.
3. (of a color, form, etc., on a flat surface) to move away or be perceived as moving away from an observer, especially as giving the illusion of space. Compare advance (def 15).
4. to slope backward:
5. to draw back or withdraw from a conclusion, viewpoint, undertaking, promise, etc.

Origin of recede

1470-80; Latin recēdere to go, fall back, equivalent to re- re- + cēdere to withdraw, go; see cede

Examples for recede

Unlike any other wall with which he had had experience, this wall seemed to recede from him as he approached.

She was briefly outed by Red as a mole and then allowed to recede into the background again.

My guess is that in the final moments of the season the supernatural elements of the show will recede.

The Cabinet will recede more and more from our principles, our party.

Nor are we disposed to recede from our assertion made in Sec.

Moreover, the task was half-accomplished, and it would be idle to recede now.

He is six feet and 201 pounds and has brown hair that is beginning to recede at the temples.

The Qataris need to recede from the stage, Kabul will never trust them.

It is petty, but his constant railing against human nature reminds one of King Canute ordering the tide to recede.

In short, things have gone so far that I cannot recede; because—things have gone so far.'