recede

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As you get closer, the event horizon seems to recede.

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Quick take

pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"

verb

retreat

verb

become faint or more distant; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for recede.

verb

pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"

verb

retreat

verb

become faint or more distant; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older"

Example sentences

As you get closer, the event horizon seems to recede.

They can recede inland hundreds of metres over the years.

"Another couple of days like this and the great tech bubble of 2012 might recede into history.

But in the long term I think that minimalism is going to recede as a social indicator.

Are Sherpas more likely to recede from danger when their climbing party is from Japan than when it is from Germany?

I think I spend a lot of time obsessing over small warts and it takes time for those to recede into the background where they belong.

They recede to the safety of a screen because it offers a way of saying - 'I don't need you, cooler things and people are in my phone'.

LayerVault is a perfect example of an interface that needs to recede when a user is viewing their own work.

" question, the chain must either stop somewhere or recede infinitely to a "bad question" asymptote.

Since the industrial revolution is only from the past 200 years, something else must have caused the glaciers to recede and advance.

It took leaving the continent for the insult to finally recede into the background of my days, and for me to regain my equilibrium.

Do some digging into Consumer Watchdog, they are basically a FUD group that basically comes up for air to launch Google smears then recede beneath the waters.

Whether it is a cause or a symptom is unclear, partially because it is unclear what is going on in neurons exposed to stressors that causes their dendrites to recede.

But everyone's known this risk, as one of the design assumptions of the system, from the beginning... and also seen the tipping point approach/recede/approach repeatedly.

So I think it's natural that people recede slightly from the idea a globalised common communal identity created by the Internet and look toward their national structures to protect them.

Tactics like blind conversion of every existing type of video game into a F2P straitjacket are what make it a fad, one likely to recede to a more reasonable level over time, but not one that goes away entirely.