Word "RECEDE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
pull back or move away or backward
Synonyms:
draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, retire, retreat, withdraw

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
retreat
Synonyms:
drop off, fall back, fall behind

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
become faint or more distant
Examples:
the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older

Crossword Clues for RECEDE

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Diminish what ground staff do following Wimbledon broadcast The Telegraph Toughie 20 Aug 2025
Decree being criminal, move away (6) The Sun Two Speed 16 Aug 2025
Ebb, as the tide Newsday 11 Aug 2025
Move back LA Times Daily 03 Aug 2025
Subside (6) Puzzler 22 Jul 2025
About to give up and go back
Ebb or wane The Sun Two Speed 22 Jul 2025
Decree being criminal, move away The Sun Two Speed 22 Jul 2025
Ebb, go backwards The Times Concise 03 Jul 2025
Go, draw back (6)
Grow less by decree, perhaps (6)
Decree being horrible, move away The Sun Two Speed 24 Jun 2025
Ebb or wane The Sun Two Speed 24 Jun 2025
Go back and plant again, we're told The Times Quick Cryptic 23 Jun 2025
Move further back, like the tide or a hairline
Slope backwards (6) Mirror Tea Time 21 May 2025
Go back to review creed with European (6)
About to give in and go back (6)
Drop wrong decree (6)
Lose hair gradually (6)
Draw back Puzzler Backwords 13 Apr 2025
Go back; move back e.g. like flood waters (6)
Go back (of the hairline) (6) The Sun Mini 18 Feb 2025
Go back USA Today 02 Feb 2025
Die back, abate
Go back having amended decree (6)
Withdraw and surrender again? (6)
Go back to do some more sowing, we hear (6)
Ordered decree to grow less (6)
Not swell?
Inch back (DECREE anagram) (6)
Ebb(6)
Go back to surrender for a second time? (6)
Go back with empty crate among wine and cheese, finally (6)
Go back on a decree somehow (6)
Fall back The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 16 Nov 2024
Slant backward
Ebb or wane The Sun Two Speed 05 Nov 2024
Decree being criminal, move away The Sun Two Speed 05 Nov 2024
Withdraw Mirror Tea Time 23 Oct 2024
Yield again and withdraw (6)
Withdraw (as one's hairline does) (6)
Ordered decree to go back (6)
Become distant like sort of decree (6)
Diminish (6) Puzzler 03 Sep 2024
Surrender again and fall back (6)
Withdraw, diminish
Decline to make a further grant? (6)
Ebb Mirror Quick 25 Jul 2024
About to yield and draw back Mirror Cryptic 25 Jul 2024
About to surrender? Then go back! (6)
Move further back: his hairline will -
Go back The Telegraph Quick 14 Jul 2024
Go back to do stated repair work on turf
Move back, as one's hairline
Go back to surrender again (6)
Ebb Eugene Sheffer 29 Jun 2024
Draw back from revolutionary decree (6)
Engineers surrender and draw back (6)
Withdraw public school test cutting Scarlet Letter from exam or else! The Telegraph Toughie 06 Jun 2024
Leave pithead in 5 and go back... (6)
Go back to do repair work on turf we hear (6)
Withdraw or lead, but not quietly (6)
Go back and make a further concession? (6)
Give (6)
On earth, a strange creed could be regressive (6)
Go first after losing power and withdraw (6)
Become more distant ? and give up again?
Go back on unrealistic promise we'd made ultimately (6)
Go back on unrealistic promise we'd made ultimately The Guardian Cryptic 11 Apr 2024
Withdraw the Royal Engineers and surrender (6)
Move back and surrender again (6)
Withdraw ill-made decree (6)
Move back or further away (6)
What coastlines and hairlines may do LA Times Daily 08 Mar 2024
Go down Wall Street Journal 17 Feb 2024
Go back on precedent, to some extent (6)
Go back, like a hairline (6)
Fall back and surrender again? (6)
Fade into distance
Go back USA Today 04 Dec 2023
Creed affected European retreat (6)
Ebb, go backwards The Times Concise 30 Nov 2023
Fall back Thomas Joseph 05 Oct 2023
Ebb Universal 25 Sep 2023
Flow back LA Times Daily 04 Jun 2023
Retreat (like hair?) The Guardian Quick 04 Jan 2023
Subside Universal 11 Oct 2022
Ebb, retreat The Guardian Speedy 28 Aug 2022
Ebb, as the tide Newsday 07 Aug 2022
Fall back The Guardian Quick 03 Aug 2022
Ebb LA Times Daily 12 Jul 2022
Become more distant The Guardian Quick 23 Jun 2022
Ebb Eugene Sheffer 03 Jun 2022
Gradually diminish The Times Concise 05 Apr 2022
Peter out with shrink? Irish Times Crosaire 01 Apr 2022
Go back and surrender again The Times Cryptic 21 Feb 2022
Dwindle Wall Street Journal 17 Feb 2022
Soldiers to yield or retreat
Soldiers to yield or retreat The Guardian Quiptic 31 Jan 2022
Fall back, abate Irish Times Simplex 24 Nov 2021
Surrender after Royal Engineers retreat The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Nov 2021
Cardinal saves church with end of steeple in decline
Grow less edelweiss, initially, after Charlie cuts grass The Telegraph Cryptic 13 Jul 2021
Move back Universal 04 Jul 2021
Go back from park and garden, briefly
Go back Universal 19 Jan 2021
Fall back, abate Irish Times Simplex 11 Dec 2020
Peter out with shrink? Irish Times Crosaire 16 Oct 2020
Ebb LA Times Daily 22 Sep 2020
Ebb The Washington Post 22 Sep 2020
Move away The Washington Post Sunday 23 Aug 2020
Diminish The Telegraph Quick 15 Jul 2020
Decree being awful, move away The Sun Two Speed 26 Feb 2020
Ebb or wane The Sun Two Speed 26 Feb 2020
Go back and surrender again
Lessen, as the tide Newsday 22 Apr 2019
Move away The Washington Post 09 Mar 2019
Move away LA Times Daily 09 Mar 2019
Go back; withdraw The Guardian Speedy 24 Feb 2019
Withdraw
Withdraw New York Times 03 Jan 2019
Move away
Move back, as a hairline
Fall back Thomas Joseph 19 Dec 2018
Move back The Times Concise 16 Nov 2018
Ebb Newsday 10 Sep 2018
Slope backward Universal 01 Aug 2018
Wane Wall Street Journal 21 Jul 2018
Move further away The Times Concise 22 Jun 2018
. Leave with rector for Sabbath, then go back
Decline, as floodwaters USA Today 22 Mar 2018
Decree modified to get Peter out
Slope backward
Wane
Withdraw Premier Sunday 10 Dec 2017
Move away Newsday 02 Nov 2017
Fall back, like a hairline USA Today 28 Oct 2017
Ebb, as the tide Newsday 31 Jul 2017
About to give way and withdraw
Ebb Wall Street Journal 03 Jul 2017
Withdraw, retreat The Telegraph Quick 19 Jun 2017
Go back to make further concessions?
Draw back Canadiana 06 Mar 2017
What coastlines may do New York Times 14 Jan 2017
Fall back, like a hairline
What coastlines may do
Ebb Eugene Sheffer 05 Dec 2016
Fall back New York Times 03 Dec 2016
Draw back, as one's hairline LA Times Daily 14 Nov 2016
Move back The Washington Post 12 Aug 2016
Pull back The Telegraph Quick 30 Jul 2016
Go back to decree amendment Irish Times Crosaire 11 Jul 2016
Withdraw The Washington Post 09 Jun 2016
Fall back
Draw back, as one's hairline
Withdraw wine close to unpalatable around church The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Dec 2015
Fall back Newsday 27 Dec 2015
Go back, as a hairline Universal 10 Nov 2015
... go back and again sow, broadcast The Telegraph Toughie 27 Oct 2015
Move back USA Today 19 Oct 2015
Diminish over time Wall Street Journal 15 Jun 2015
Ebb USA Today 12 Apr 2015
Wane Thomas Joseph 23 Mar 2015
Subside Wall Street Journal 16 Mar 2015
Fall back
Go back, as a hairline
Ebb
Move back
Ebb
Go back to compensate for dead grass, we hear?
Ebb
Ebb
Fall back
Move back
Go back
Fall back
Move away
What gums might do
A hairline can do it
Flow back
Gradually diminish
Fall back
Ease off
Draw back
A hairline may do it
Go back
Give ground gradually
Peter out
Fall away
Many men's hairlines do this
Ebb
Flow back
Go back
Move away
Flow back
Withdraw
Move away
Move back
Withdraw
Move back
Go back
Ebb
Inch back
Drop back
Lose ground
Withdraw gradually
Become more distant
Withdraw
Subside
Reveal more forehead
Withdraw
Withdraw
Ebb
Abate
Withdraw
Withdraw
Inch back
Drop off
Go back, as a hairline
Reveal more forehead
Slope backward
Diminish
Many hairlines do it
Grow distant
Become more distant
Subside
Become fainter
Grow distant
Move back
Move away
Ebb
Diminish, as a threat
Subside
Go back and surrender again
Inch back slowly, as a hairline
Withdraw
Subside
Ebb
Withdraw
Retreat, like a hairline
Hairlines do it
A hairline can do it
Move back
Slope backward
What some hairlines do
Diminish
Back off
Move, as a hairline
Draw back
Retrograde.
Withdraw.
Grow less.
Ebb away.
Shrink
Desist
Retreat, as the hair line.
Fall back.
Withdraw (from).
Ebb.
Move back.
Slope backward.
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