RECEDE


Meaning of RECEDE in English

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

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.