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recede
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  • The pain is beginning to recede.
    recede = diminish (decrease)
  • For a second, Mr. Sir's pain seemed to recede.  (source)
  • She keeps her eyes on the piano, forcing the audience to recede into darkness.  (source)
    recede = move away (figuratively)
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  • Except for her receding chin Turtle Wexler looked every inch the witch, her dark unbraided hair streaming wild in the wind from under her peaked hat, a putty wart pasted on her small beaked nose.  (source)
    receding = sloping back (as contrasted to sticking out)
  • But Gallien persisted, and the more he talked, the more Ellis's skepticism receded.  (source)
    receded = diminished (decreased)
  • I used to tell Hassan that someday we'd walk on a strip of seaweed-strewn beach, sink our feet in the sand, and watch the water recede from our toes.  (source)
    recede = move away
  • Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… and one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.  (source)
    recedes = moves away; or retreats from
  • ...her face came to a complete stop, there was an almost imperceptible movement of her black eyes, during which they seemed to be receding,  (source)
    receding = moving away
  • Her mother's voice, the feel of home, receded for the moment, and her thoughts turned forward.  (source)
    receded = diminished (decreased)
  • [He] watched the small red taillight recede down the street and out toward the highway leaving him alone in the darkened town.  (source)
    recede = move away
  • If her chin was bigger, it might balance out her nose, but it is weak and almost recedes into her neck.†  (source)
    recedes = moves away or diminishes (becomes less)
  • He'd dropped his load of driftwood and merely gazed at the receding coach.  (source)
    receding = moving away
  • As soon as the cold water hit his stomach he felt the hunger sharpen, as it had before, and he stood and held his abdomen until the hunger cramps receded.  (source)
    receded = diminished (decreased)
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