"recede" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɹɪˈsiːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recede.wav [Southern-England] Forms: recedes [present, singular, third-person], receding [participle, present], receded [participle, past], receded [past]
Rhymes: -iːd Etymology: From Middle French receder, from Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), from re- + cedere (“to go”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|receder}} Middle French receder, {{uder|en|la|recedere||to withdraw; to go back}} Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), {{m|la|re-}} re-, {{m|la|cedere||to go}} cedere (“to go”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} recede (third-person singular simple present recedes, present participle receding, simple past and past participle receded)
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Translations (move back, move away): оттеглям се (ottegljam se) (Bulgarian), отстъпвам (otstǎpvam) (Bulgarian), вдлъбвам се (vdlǎbvam se) (Bulgarian), recular (Catalan), retirar-se (Catalan), allunyar-se (Catalan), ustoupit (Czech), trække sig tilbage (Danish), zich terugtrekken (Dutch), sulautua (Finnish), upottaa (Finnish), reculer (French), se retirer (French), recuar (Galician), cear (Galician), téigh ar gcúl (Irish), cúlaigh (Irish), recedere (Italian), あそびをとる (asobi wo toru) (Japanese), recēdō (Latin), trekke seg tilbake (Norwegian), wycofać się [perfective] (Polish), wycofywać się [imperfective] (Polish), retrage (Romanian), углубля́ть (uglubljátʹ) (Russian), alejarse (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-recede-en-verb-8ggcHgrT Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 43 39 19 Disambiguation of 'move back, move away': 83 5 12
  2. To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
    Sense id: en-recede-en-verb-nFE0Wn7W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 52 15 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 43 39 19
  3. To take back. Translations (take back): връщам обратно (vrǎštam obratno) (Bulgarian), terugnemen (Dutch)
    Sense id: en-recede-en-verb-lCTssB1S Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 43 39 19 Disambiguation of 'take back': 9 3 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: withdraw Derived forms: receding Related terms: cede, recedence, recession, recess, recessive

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.