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• n  a slow or gradual disappearance
• n  the act of becoming more distant
• v  pull back or move away or backward
• v  retreat
• v  become faint or more distant
• s  (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back

• The most distant ones whose speeds can be measured convincingly are apparently receding at almost 40,000 miles per second, more than one-fifth of the speed of light (or were .
• Just as the lowered pitch of the whistle of a receding train is determined by the speed at which it is traveling, 0237-23's red shiftthe largest ever observed in a celestial .
• How did a kid with an overbite, aquiline nose and receding chin displace the Nicholases and Andys and Jackys to become Asia's hottest pop star?.

• fadeout
• recession
• withdraw
• retreat
• pull away
• draw back
• recede
• pull back
• retire
• move back
• fall back
• lose
• drop off
• fall behind

• advance
• gain

News & Articles

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• Two Roads Reopen In Wet Dutchtown, Missouri
  DUTCHTOWN, Mo. (AP) - Residents of tiny Dutchtown, Mo., can breathe easier. Rising floodwaters threatened the southeast Missouri town for the second time this spring, prompting vigorous sandbagging. The Mississippi River crested last week, and now the waters are receding.
  June 11, 2013 - KTTS 94.7
• Budapest escapes floods, Danube starts to recede
  BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The Hungarian capital escaped damage from the swollen river Danube, which peaked at record high levels in Budapest overnight and started receding slowly on Monday morning, the city's mayor said on Monday. Floods have forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes over the past week in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. At least a ...
  June 10, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• U.S. Outlook Revised to Stable by S&P as Fiscal Risks Recede
  The U.S.’s AA+ credit rating outlook was increased to stable from negative by Standard & Poor’s, which cited receding fiscal risks.
  June 10, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Naoto Kan in BusinessWeek
  Risks for a double-dip recession are receding,Finance Minister Naoto Kan told reporters in Tokyo today. "We're starting to see some bright signs emerge from the clouds, but we can't be complacent."
• Manasseh Sogavare in guardian.co.uk
  The disaster would have been worse if it had happened in darkness, Mr Sogavare told CNN: "We are lucky that it happened during the daytime, that the people observed the sea receding as a sign something was not right."
• Joe Biden in Kansas City Star
  For too many people the American dream is literally receding before their eyes,Biden said.