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What does recede mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word recede? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
  2. To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
  3. To take back.
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As the ridges began to recede from the river, kills flowed down to expend themselves in the Hudson.
Give yourself a little time to let the sadness recede and then make a decision.
He told her how he had been suddenly placed in a position of terrible difficulty, from which neither honour nor duty would allow him to recede.
If the word's ultima is short, the accent will recede to the antepenult and it will always be an acute accent.
He let his eyes take in the sorry sight of the man and felt his anger recede a little.
On the other hand, brightly colored variegated ribbon grass planted behind catmint backlights the catmint and makes its flowers recede.

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