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

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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
Slope backwards (6)
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 The Guardian Quiptic 31 Jan 2022
Soldiers to yield or retreat
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
Ebb or wane The Sun Two Speed 26 Feb 2020
Decree being awful, move away The Sun Two Speed 26 Feb 2020
Go back and surrender again
Lessen, as the tide Newsday 22 Apr 2019
Move away LA Times Daily 09 Mar 2019
Move away The Washington Post 09 Mar 2019
Go back; withdraw The Guardian Speedy 24 Feb 2019
Withdraw New York Times 03 Jan 2019
Withdraw
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
Wane
Slope backward
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
What coastlines may do
Fall back, like a hairline
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
Draw back, as one's hairline
Fall back
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
Move back
Ebb
Fall back
Go back, as a hairline
Ebb
Go back to compensate for dead grass, we hear?
Ebb
Ebb
Fall back
Move back
Fall back
Go back
Move away
A hairline can do it
What gums might do
Ease off
Fall back
Gradually diminish
Flow back
Go back
A hairline may do it
Draw back
Peter out
Give ground gradually
Fall away
Many men's hairlines do this
Go back
Move away
Ebb
Flow back
Flow back
Move away
Move back
Move back
Withdraw
Go back
Withdraw
Withdraw
Become more distant
Reveal more forehead
Withdraw gradually
Ebb
Lose ground
Drop back
Inch back
Subside
Withdraw
Withdraw
Ebb
Abate
Withdraw
Slope backward
Reveal more forehead
Diminish
Inch back
Go back, as a hairline
Drop off
Withdraw
Move back
Subside
Become more distant
Many hairlines do it
Move away
Become fainter
Grow distant
Grow distant
Ebb
Go back and surrender again
Inch back slowly, as a hairline
Diminish, as a threat
Subside
Withdraw
Withdraw
Ebb
Subside
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
Shrink
Slope backward.
Move back.
Grow less.
Withdraw (from).
Ebb.
Fall back.
Withdraw.
Ebb away.
Retreat, as the hair line.
Retrograde.
Desist
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