All 4 Uses
recede
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- I drove through the dry, silent heat along flat pink desert land, a plain of mesquite bushes and deep green saguaro cactus that recedes until it hits the Santan Mountains.†
Chpt 2. *recedes = moves away or diminishes (becomes less)
- His horrified comrades look on as his figure recedes, then vanishes.†
Chpt 6.
- People around him noticed that he seemed already to have receded from the whirl of voices and faces around him.†
Chpt 18.receded = move away or diminished (became less)
- For many of the veterans, their memories of combat receded; supplanted by happy peacetime experiences.†
Chpt 20.
Definitions:
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(1)
(recede) to move away or diminish (become less)The exact meaning of recede depends upon its context. For example:
- "We can't move back in until the floodwaters recede." -- diminish and move away
- "Her fear receded." -- diminished
- "The waves first advance and then recede." -- move away
- "The news story receded into the background as it was replaced by new stories." -- received diminished attention
- "a receding hairline" -- diminished hair (each year the line where hair stops growing is higher on the forehead)
- "She has a receding chin." -- sloping back (as contrasted to sticking out)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)