receding
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Verb
receding
- present participle and gerund of recede
Adjective
receding (comparative more receding, superlative most receding)
- Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing.
- That recedes.
- a receding hairline
Translations
moving further away
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Noun
receding (plural recedings)
- The action of something that recedes.
- 1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler, page 205:
- the great overflowings and recedings of the waters
- A recessed part.
- 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, page 20:
- The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]
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