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Interest in the story is beginning to recede.recede = diminish (decrease)
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The tide is receding.receding = getting lower
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He has a receding hairline.receding = moving back
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The pain is beginning to recede.recede = diminish (decrease)
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For a second, Mr. Sir's pain seemed to recede. (source)
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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)
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But Gallien persisted, and the more he talked, the more Ellis's skepticism receded. (source)receded = diminished (decreased)
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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
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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
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...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
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Her mother's voice, the feel of home, receded for the moment, and her thoughts turned forward. (source)receded = diminished (decreased)
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[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
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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)
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He'd dropped his load of driftwood and merely gazed at the receding coach. (source)receding = moving away
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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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