All 9 Uses
recede
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The Good Earth
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- But he looked across the fields at the small figures of the men receding and he muttered over and over, "At least I have the land—I have the land."†
Chpt 9 *receding = moving away or diminishing (become less)
- There were, besides, the laborers, whom he hired for a year at a time, and it was foolish for him to work when there were those who ate his rice while they were half idle waiting day after day for the waters to recede.†
Chpt 18recede = to move away or diminish (become less)
- Now if the waters had at this time receded from Wang Lung's land, leaving it wet and smoking under the sun, so that in a few days of summer heat it would need to have been ploughed and harrowed and seed put in, Wang Lung might never have gone again to the great tea shop.†
Chpt 19receded = move away or diminished (became less)
- And if any spoke to him, his wife or his children, or if Ching came to him and said, "The waters will soon recede and what is there we should prepare of seed?" he shouted and said, "Why do you trouble me?"†
Chpt 19recede = to move away or diminish (become less)
- And he saw that the waters had receded and the land lay shining under the dry cold wind and under the ardent sun.†
Chpt 21receded = move away or diminished (became less)
- Then Wang Lung saw that a famine such as he had never seen was upon the land, for the water did not recede in time to plant the wheat for winter and there could be no harvest then the next year.†
Chpt 27recede = to move away or diminish (become less)
- It is doubtful whether the thing would ever have been done and they would have gone as they were until the waters chose to recede had not a thing happened.†
Chpt 27
- Now as the winter wore away and the waters began to recede so that Wang Lung could walk abroad over his land it happened one day that his eldest son followed him and said to him proudly, "Well, and there will soon be another mouth in the house and it will be the mouth of your grandson."†
Chpt 28
- When the waters receded and summer came and the land was to be planted to good seed, he walked hither and thither and looked at every piece and he discussed with Ching the quality of each piece of soil and what change there should be of crops for the fertility of the land.†
Chpt 28receded = move away or diminished (became less)
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)