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# recede

«recede» in Mova's school dictionary: **To move back or away; to go down from a high level: the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (recede, recedes, receded, receding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To move back or away; to go down from a high level: the floodwater receded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#m1)

2) To become smaller, weaker or less clear: the pain receded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#m2)

3) Of hair: to stop growing at the front of the head (a receding hairline). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons, floods, tides and glaciers recede. In stories, footsteps or memories recede. In everyday life, Dad's hairline recedes. Phrases: the waters receded, receding hairline.

### examples

- The floodwater slowly receded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#x1)
- The tide recedes twice a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#x2)
- The glacier has receded a long way up the valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#x3)
- His footsteps receded down the corridor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#x4)
- The pain receded after the medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#x5)
- Grandad has a receding hairline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#x6)
- Our last glimpse of her shows her at the window, watching them receding into the sky until they were as small as stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: receded. Noun: recession (also means hard times in money). Opposite: advance, rise. One c, then d: recede.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recede» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recede/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.