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receding

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

减退,减退的,退行,退缩

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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

Examples

  • Republicans are receding from some of the most influential governments.

  • The switch reflects recent changes in other North County cities, as the Republican Party largely recedes from view in the county’s most influential governments.

  • He’s slight, with thick glasses and sandy hair that’s receding, shirtless because he gets overheated easily, his mom explained.

  • When the crisis recedes, each of us will decide what our journeys will look like in a post-pandemic world — and if we’re willing to take a chance on the strangers we encounter there.

  • Although “some folks are kind of doubling down, tripling down, it’s just receding to an ever-smaller, more marginal set of folks,” Schmidt said.

  • In Turkey, some mothers find their paradise at the Esme Beltagy Center in Esenler, while others see paradise receding.

  • Manning is a broad man with salt and pepper hair, a receding hairline, and rimless glasses.

  • He is a relatively young man with a trim, tight beard and receding hairline.

  • In the longer term, she sees big strides in preventing tartar build-up and halting receding gums.

  • But six years later, the right-wing talk-radio crowd is receding in relevance as their listeners age out of existence.

  • Ze under lip rather retires, and this adds to the receding effect of the chin, you see.

  • On the dahabeeyah, which began to look as if it were a long way off and were receding from her, shone a red and a blue light.

  • Before he could do anything with it, Clip grabbed it out of his hand, leveled it after the receding form, and pulled the trigger.

  • He stole to his window and lent an ear, but the voices were receding, and to his vexation he caught nothing of what was said.

  • Crushed by that bolt from the blue, Richard sat as if stunned, the flush receding from his face until his very lips were livid.