re ‧ cede /rɪˈsiːd/ BrE AmE verb [intransitive]
[ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: recedere , from cedere 'to go' ]
1 . if something you can see or hear recedes, it gets further and further away until it disappears
recede into
footsteps receding into the distance
2 . if a memory, feeling, or possibility recedes, it gradually goes away:
The pain in his head gradually receded.
3 . if water recedes, it moves back from an area that it was covering:
The flood waters finally began to recede in November.
4 . if your hair recedes, you gradually lose the hair at the front of your head:
He was in his mid-forties, with a receding hairline.
5 . receding chin a chin that slopes backwards