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receding en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing.
    • a receding hairline

Forms

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most receding Degree=Sup lexicographic
more receding Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

recedingness · unreceding · recedingly

Translations (2)

la refluus (moving further away) · mi whakaawe (moving further away)

receding en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The action of something that recedes.
    • the great overflowings and recedings of the waters 1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler, page 205:
  2. A recessed part.
    • The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […] 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, page 20:

Forms

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recedings Number=Plur lexicographic

receding en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of recede
    form of recede