recede

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re·cede /rɪˈsiːd/ verb [intransitiveI]

1 FARif something you can see or hear recedes, it gets further and further away until it disappears 〔景物、声音〕逐渐远去（直至消失）

recede into

footsteps receding into the distance

渐渐远去的脚步声

2 LESSif a memory, feeling, or possibility recedes, it gradually goes away 〔记忆〕逐渐模糊；〔感情〕逐渐淡漠；〔可能性〕逐渐消失

The pain in his head gradually receded.

他的头痛逐渐缓解。

3 DNif water recedes, it moves back from an area that it was covering 〔水〕消退，退去

The flood waters finally began to recede in November.

11 月，洪水终于开始退去。

4 DCBif your hair recedes, you gradually lose the hair at the front of your head 〔头发〕从前额往后脱落

He was in his mid-forties, with a receding hairline.

他四十五六岁，发际线已开始往后移了。

5. receding chin HBHa chin that slopes backwards 向后缩的下巴

Examples from the Corpus

receding chin• His spare middle-aged frame is topped by a large head with sallow cheeks, thin lips, and receding chin.• She had a primly censorious mouth above a slightly receding chin already showing the first slackness of a dewlap.

Examples from the Corpus

recede• There was not even time for sentimental looks backward at the receding coast of the homeland.• Once that moment of power recedes, control has to be traded in for speed and nimbleness.• She walked away, her footsteps receding down the hall.• Since Donald lost his job, the hopes of our buying a house have receded even further.• Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium.• Flood waters finally began to recede in November.• In a time of receding income, the income tax reduces itself automatically.• As the threat of nuclear war receded, other things began to worry us.• Each image is a complete story often told through a dense, receding picture space.• This time the wave didn't recede, this time it built, went on building, higher and higher.• As the threat of attack receded, village life returned to normal.

receding hairline• Bruce is embarrassed about his receding hairline.• He has a fuzzy beard and a receding hairline.• He was in his early forties with a receding hairline, a plump face and a small mouth.• Ignore the receding hairline and funny glasses.• And Joszef, the last time seen: receding hairline, dark velvety eyes bloodshot and anxious.• Instead of receding hairlines, women have an all-over thinning which gets worse as they grow older.

From Longman Business Dictionary

recedere·cede /rɪˈsiːd/ verb [intransitiveI]

if prices, interest rates etc recede, they decrease

Growth was expected to recede throughout the year.

The domestic market is receding.

Origin recede

(1400-1500) Latin recedere, from cedere “to go”

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