Recedes [verb]
Definition of Recedes:
withdraw; diminish
Synonyms of Recedes:
● Reduce
● Fade
● Ebb
● Wane
● Dwindle
● Lessen
● Taper
● Subside
● Decrease
● Sink
● Abate
● Diminish
● Shrink
● Retreat
● Fall back
● Retrogress
● Decline
● Retire
● Return
● Depart
● Drop
● Back
● Retract
● Retrograde
● Regress
● Close
● Draw back
● Go back
● Retrocede
● Die off
● Drain away
● Flow back
● Go away
Opposite/Antonyms of Recedes:
● Forward
● Advance
● Continue
● Enter
● Begin
● Forge
● Meet
● Face
● Develop
● Rise
● Strengthen
● Raise
● Extend
● Expand
● Ascend
● Prolong
● Enlarge
● Enhance
● Increase
● Grow
Sentence/Example of Recedes:
The tide advances in one direction because it recedes in another.
The Indian recedes: at the rate of seventeen miles a year, the flood rolls on!
Stock advances and recedes by "points," and is always so quoted.
As the one strives to advance, the other recedes toward the dale.
It's a goal that recedes as you approach, which is as it should be.
It recedes, like some unknown creature deeper into its lair.
The thread snaps: England recedes a hundred miles in an instant.
Then, in the next six weeks, it recedes as far, and there is a like diminution.
Like the ignis fatuus, it recedes as we seem to approach it.
On the right wing of the peristyle, on the last range, recedes the triclinium.