verb
definition
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
definition
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
example
to recede conquered territory
definition
To take back.
noun
definition
The action of something that recedes; a recessed part.
adjective
definition
Going or moving back or further away from a previous position, gradually diminishing.
definition
That recedes
example
A receding hairline
Examples of receding in a Sentence
If the current is on while the bob is receding the vibration is checked.
Idealism was receding for the moment.
If instead of receding the sea rose continuously at the rate of ioo ft.
Xander's eyes glowed with hunger, and his fangs were receding in a way not remotely human.
If it's just a receding hairline, I recommend not hiding it, but exaggerating it.
The people themselves are described as of " middle height, broadchested and muscular, with remarkably large hands and feet, the eyes large, the forehead round, and not narrow or receding in many instances, the nose broad, the mouth large and disfigured with betel."
H is a pulley to guide the approaching and receding parts of the belt to and from the beam in parallel directions.
As the sun rises, the rays enter the prisms more and more obliquely, and the angle of minimum deviation increases; but since the emergent ray makes the same angle with the refracting edge as the incident ray, it follows that the parhelia will remain on the parhelic circle, while receding from the inner halo.
There are indications that the bed of Lake Victoria, as well as that of Chakmaktin, is rapidly silting, and that the shores of the latter are gradually receding farther from the foot of the hills.
The Eastern Ghats stretch in fragmentary spurs and ranges down the Madras presidency, here and there receding inland and leaving broad level tracts between their base and the coast.
Vogel of Potsdam, by repeated measurements of the motion of Algol in the line of sight, showed that the star is always receding from us before the loss of light and approaching us afterwards.
The means by which we got here is receding into the past.
Hair loss from braids that are too tight sometimes manifest as a receding hairline.
His fangs were receding.
The head is long and somewhat narrow, the forehead broad and receding, with overhanging brows, the eyes sunken, large and black, the nose thick and very broad at the nostrils.
The lower jaw is heavy; the cheekbones somewhat high, and the chin small and receding.
Cattle-breeders did well in 1889, but sheep-breeders fared better; on the other hand, owing to receding prices, corngrowers were more disheartened than ever.
This is really an accretion of undetermined liabilities which has been indefinitely, and probably alternately, advancing and receding for a great number of years, and which no previous minister of finance, or Turkish government, had the courage to face.
From Luang Prabang the river cuts its way southwards for two degrees through a lonely jungle country among receding hills of low elevation.
The human type is always very brachycephalic, with brow receding sharply and long nose making almost one line with the sloping forehead.
Complete adaptation to an infinitely receding ideal is impossible, and relative adaptation depends on the distance between the actual and the ideal.
If we do not know values of u outside the figure, we must use advancing or receding differences.
Projecting brows, deeply sunk dark eyes, short noses, either straight or arched, but 'always depressed at the root, and moderately thick lips, with a somewhat receding chin, are general characteristics.
The site on which it is built forms a succession of terraces receding farther and farther from the river.
Most of the Alaskan glaciers are receding, but not all of them; and at times there is a general advance.
The irregularities incidental to use of the spots are escaped by comparing the relative Doppler displacements of the same spectral line as given by the receding and advancing limbs of the sun.
Larmor suggests is due to relaxation of the spring of the surrounding ether by reason of the crowding of the molecules; a shift of 0.17 tenth-metres would, if interpreted by Doppler's principle, have been read as a receding velocity of I I km.
From Grimsby to Skegness traces of a submarine forest are visible; but while the sea is encroaching upon some parts of the coast it is receding from others, as shown by Holbeach, which is now 6 m.
This elevated plateau extends from Dry's Bluff in the north to the Denison Range in the south-west, and although often receding at points adjacent to the sources of the principal rivers, invariably presents a bold crested front to the north, west and east.
Bird Song remained nearly empty during the week and half full weekends when get-away folks from Grand Junction, and sometimes even Colorado Springs or Denver, left the kiddies with grandma and snuck over the mountains for a little R and R. An occasional ice climber continued to remind the group of the receding memories of the recent tragic past.
Origin Members of the upper classes, by repute, often have minor genetic abnormalities like receding chins.
They often have a low, slanting forehead, a receding forehead.
In men however the patern of loss usually starts with a receding hairline which then advances to thin the top of the head.
The same goes for hundreds of older office blocks left high and dry by the receding tide.
A great extent of the English coast is constantly undergoing visible alteration, the sea in some instances receding from the land, and in others gaining upon it.
Fish became stranded in the hull of the vessel during receding tides.
Also there is no worry about receding glaciers, rockfall or early hut starts.
The most common cause of sensitive teeth in adults is exposed tooth roots due to receding gums.
Pictures of the receding waters of the Ouse taken by Mister P in early August 2002.
The photo above shows an interior receding into the distance.
On the other side of the path are many trees receding into the background.
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return.
Inflation is steadily if slowly receding despite the alarmist warnings of many experts.
Blair found himself on a bridge from which the European shoreline was fast receding.
The lips are rotted, receding to reveal a rictus grin.
The vein will keep receding, and you can keep clipping off just the tip once a week until the nail is short enough to suit you.
Psoriasis is usually cyclical, with episodes flaring up for weeks or months throughout the child's life and then receding.
Partial trisomy of the proximal segment of chromosome 13 is much less likely to be fatal and has been associated with a variety of facial features including a large nose, a short upper lip, and a receding jaw.
Are you worried that your thinning hair or receding hairline makes you look older than you are?
Usually genetic, in men it causes receding hairlines, while in women hair becomes thin all over the scalp.