receding
- presentparticiple andgerund ofrecede
receding (comparativemorereceding,superlativemostreceding)
- Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing.
- Thatrecedes.
- areceding hairline
receding (pluralrecedings)
- The action of something that recedes.
1829, Josiah Conder,The Modern Traveler, page205:the great overflowings andrecedings of the waters
- A recessed part.
1820, John Gibson Lockhart,Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, page20: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[…]
