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recede

/ri-seed/US // rɪˈsid //UK // (rɪˈsiːd) //

退缩,退却,后退,消退

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    re·ced·ed, re·ced·ing.

    • : to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
    • : to become more distant.
    • : to move away or be perceived as moving away from an observer, especially as giving the illusion of space.Compare advance.
    • : to slope backward: a chin that recedes.
    • : to draw back or withdraw from a conclusion, viewpoint, undertaking, promise, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbwithdraw; diminish
Forms: receded, recedes, receding

Examples

  • Despite those obstacles, Chase’s success may keep it invested in Duckett’s vision once pandemic restrictions recede.

  • However, by 1876 the issues of the war had begun to recede in political importance.

  • The unique impact of the coronavirus recession makes a fast recovery possible, but even after the pandemic recedes, the global economy will be facing a myriad of problems.

  • In broad strokes, the way to gauge cosmic expansion is to figure out how far away distant galaxies are and how fast they’re receding from us.

  • Once the coronavirus pandemic recedes, engineers from his lab will move into partner communities while they work on improving the system.

  • Russia has far grander plans to secure its claims in the north as the permanent ice caps recede.

  • He is six feet and 201 pounds and has brown hair that is beginning to recede at the temples.

  • She was briefly outed by Red as a mole and then allowed to recede into the background again.

  • My guess is that in the final moments of the season the supernatural elements of the show will recede.

  • The Qataris need to recede from the stage, Kabul will never trust them.

  • The wave of religious fanaticism sweeping over the land might recede as rapidly as it had risen.

  • The jungles here recede, and their place is occupied by beautiful plantations of rice, and other vegetables.

  • It will help to keep me in touch with the outside world, which daily seems to recede further.

  • The girls would not recede from their position; work had to be found for the girl elsewhere.

  • For instance, the forehead may recede from the wire at the top, or the nose may have a different slant or shape.