recede
verb/ɹɪˈsiːd/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English receden, from Middle French receder and its etymon Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), from re- + cedere (“to go”).
1
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
- Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from th' insulted shore.1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- All bodies moved circularly have a perpetual endeavour to recede from the center.1725, Richard Bentley, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism:
2
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
- to recede conquered territory
3
To take back.
- Derived terms
- receding