recede
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- v pull back or move away or backward
- v retreat
- v become faint or more distant
the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older
- Though the waters had started to recede this week, aid organizations anticipate pockets of flooding will remain for months.
- Physics, engineering and scientific inspiration begin to recede in importance as lawyers take center stage.
- In which that same tidal gold-rush can recede in a panic of keystrokes and leave an entire region starved, the erstwhile Asian tigers suddenly mangy .