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recedingverbpresent participle of recede to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe sound of sirens receded as the fire engines roared off into the distance abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)after the rain stops, the floodwaters should gradually recede backing away, dropping back, falling back, pulling out, retiring, retreating, withdrawing fleeing, flyingflinching, recoiling, shrinkingchickening (out)bowing outbacking down, backpedaling, backtracking, climbing downdetaching, disengaging, disentangling, pulling awayabandoning, departing, evacuating, going, leaving, quitting, vacating giving ground, giving way, losing ground advancing bearding, braving, brazening, breasting, confronting, daring, defying, facing, outbraving |