recede
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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; to retrocede.
- 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.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]move back, move away
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take back
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References
[edit]- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “recede”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]recede
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]recēde
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]reċede
- inflection of reċċan:
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