recede

See also: recedé

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle French receder, from Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), from re- + cedere (“to go”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsiːd/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -iːd

Verb edit

recede (third-person singular simple present recedes, present participle receding, simple past and past participle receded)

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
- 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from th' insulted shore.
- 1725, Richard Bentley, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism:
  All bodies moved circularly have a perpetual endeavour to recede from the center.
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
to recede conquered territory
To take back.

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