receding Definition

recede
verb, intr receded, receding

1. To go or move back or backwards.
2. To become more distant.

Thesaurus: fade, dwindle, shrink, withdraw, retreat, ebb, regress, wane, subside, abate, evanesce; Antonym: advance, proceed.
3. To bend or slope backwards.
4a. Said of a man's hair: to stop growing above the forehead and at the temples;
4b. Said of a man: to go bald gradually in this way.
5. To give up a claim; renounce a promise, etc.

Form: recede from something (usually)

Derivative: receding
adj

See also recede.

Etymology: 15c: from Latin receder to go back, from cedere to yield.