recede
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verb (used without object), re·ced·ed, re·ced·ing.
1.
to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
2.
to become more distant.
3.
(of a color, form, etc., on a flat surface) to move away or be perceived as moving away from an observer, especially as giving the illusion of space. Compare advance ( def 15 ).
4.
to slope backward: a chin that recedes.
5.
to draw back or withdraw from a conclusion, viewpoint, undertaking, promise, etc.
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Recede
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to withdraw from a point or limit; go back: the tide receded |
| 2. | to become more distant: hopes of rescue receded |
| 3. | to slope backwards: apes have receding foreheads |
| 4. | a. (of a man's hair) to cease to grow at the temples and above the forehead |
| b. (of a man) to start to go bald in this way | |
| 5. | to decline in value or character |
| 6. | ( |
| [C15: from Latin recēdere to go back, from | |
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Word Origin & History
recede
1480, from M.Fr. receder, from L. recedere "to go back, withdraw," from re- "back" + cedere "to go" (see cede).
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Example sentences
Actually, if you take one forward and two back, you slowly recede.
Because they recede they make a shallow space seem deeper.
The likeliest scenario is that a referendum on the euro will recede ever further into the future.
Thanks to dark energy, even the nearby galaxies will begin to recede from us faster than light, and no news of them will reach us.
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