recede

From Middle French receder, from Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), from re- + cedere (“to go”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsiːd/

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• Rhymes: -iːd

recede (third-person singular simple present recedes, present participle receding, simple past and past participle receded)

1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

   Synonyms: (obsolete, rare) recur, retrocede

   • 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from th' insulted shore.

   • 1725, Richard Bentley, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism:

     All bodies moved circularly have a perpetual endeavour to recede from the center.

2. To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.

   to recede conquered territory

3. To take back.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

• receding

• cede
• recedence
• recession
• recess
• recessive

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “recede”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• decree

• IPA^(key): /reˈt͡ʃɛ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɛde
• Hyphenation: re‧cè‧de

recede

1. third-person singular present indicative of recedere

• cedere

recēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of recēdō

• IPA^(key): /ˈret͡ʃede/

reċede

1. inflection of reċċan:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite
   2. first/third-person singular preterite subjunctive