recede /ri-sēdˈ/

1. To go back, go farther off, become more distant (lit and figurative)
2. To go or draw back (from; lit and figurative)
3. To differ (from; archaic)
4. To grow less, decline
5. To bend or slope backward
6. To give up a claim, renounce a promise, etc

recedˈing adjective

re-cede or recede /rē-sēdˈ/

To cede again or back

• smooth-talked
• smooth-talker
• smooth-talkers
• smooth-talking
• smooth-talks
• smooth-tongued
• smooting
• smoots
• smore
• smored
• smores
• smoring
• smorzando
• smorzato
• smote
• smother
• smothered
• smothered mate
• smothered mates
• smotherer
• smotherers
• smother-flies
• smother-fly
• smotheriness
• smotherinesses