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Receding

adjective

(of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back.

noun

A slow or gradual disappearance. Synonym: fadeout.

The act of becoming more distant. Synonym: recession.

Recede

verb

(past & past part. receded; pres. part. receding)

Pull back or move away or backward. Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, retire, retreat, withdraw. "The limo pulled away from the curb" Antonym: advance.

Retreat. Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, lose. Antonym: gain.

Become faint or more distant.

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"Receding" Quotes from Famous Books

... suggestion even of weariness or satiety. Then suddenly the rose glow grew dimmer; little by little the laughter died away and the voices were hushed. A few of the bolder spirits set themselves to stem the receding tide, but their blasphemies quickly trailed away into weak incoherencies, and again silence conquered ...

— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen

... mouth was tremulous. At the best the Professor was not an imposing personage. He wore a dressing-gown of soiled quilted silk and linen not too immaculate; but his little sandy moustache and the goatee that decorated his receding chin were both carefully waxed into sharp points—an indication that he possessed at least one vanity. Three days in the week he taught vocal and instrumental music to the ambitious young ladies of Cloverton. The other three ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne

... glaciers of this and every other mountain in the northern hemisphere are receding, and that they are now mere pygmies compared with their former selves, is well known. What their destructive power must have been when their volume was many times greater than now may be judged from the moraines along ...

— The Mountain that was 'God' • John H. Williams

... arms, whilst the unfortunate Theodora, affrighted at the violence of his manner, fixed on him a wild and vacant stare, the intensity of her grief depriving her of the power of reflection. But when she saw her lover actually receding from the place, her mind started from its abstraction, and her thoughts were fixed upon the dreadful desertion that now threatened her. She gave a frantic shriek, and ...

— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio

... on the light, crossed to the centre of the apartment, stood there for a few seconds, and then, receding, switched off the light again ...

— The White Lie • William Le Queux

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