Recedes is valid Scrabble Word

Is recedes a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for RECEDES in dictionary:

VERB:

RECEDE, to move back
go or move back or further away from a previous position
(of a facial feature) slope backwards
withdraw from (a promise or agreement)
(of a quality, feeling, or possibility) gradually diminish
(of a man) begin to go bald
(of a man's hair) cease to grow at the temples and above the forehead

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to move back or away

Words related to RECEDES

recede9 receded11 receding12

Words that contain RECEDES

precedes13

How to use RECEDES in a sentence

Every fact recedes from us, as might an ebbing wave, and leaves us stranded upon an unhorizoned beach, more despairing than before.
But if the wish is not to be fulfilled, the fire does not go to it, and if it is carried into the flame, the latter recedes and flees before it.
It starts out very softly, and builds up as the caravan approaches, passes by the listener, and then eventually recedes into the distance.
The sun shines with a cold gleam, and the surf has an angry snarl to it as it surges up the sandy slopes and then recedes, dragging the pebbles after it with a rattling sound.
The cock remains open, the spiral recedes from the burner, the circuit opens anew, and the burner remains lighted until the gas is turned off.
When the water recedes, leaving the opening uncovered, the burrow must be dug deeper, and the economy of a perpendicular burrow must immediately suggest itself.
It recedes from, but communicates with, the street by advancing wings, and is built principally of brick.
After all, what is our eyesight worth? The ship sailing across the bay yonder seems to move, but to the sailors it is the shore that recedes from their view.
We are always most virtuous in retrospect, as the fact of the crime recedes.
To me, knowing him so well as I did, it seem that as his figure recedes into the background of history, it acquires more greatness.

It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.
Now that the fear of democracy recedes, an inclination for salutary changes shows itself everywhere.
The rock projects near the floor, and then recedes with a regular and graceful curve, or swell, leaving a cavity of several feet in width between it and the floor.
As iron approaches and recedes from the magnet, current is induced in the wire surrounding the magnet.
It is probable that those messengers who come back to us are all, more or less, in one state of development and represent the same wave of life as it recedes from our shores.
From these the shore recedes on both hands, and describes a deep semicircle.
In the former case, pursuing an infinite aim, with each degree of its attainment the flying goal still recedes.
These stores seem to me much like the mirage which lures on the traveller of the desert, and which perpetually recedes as he advances.
By this connection with an old dynasty he recedes from the people and from the liberal ideas of the revolution, which enabled him to ascend the throne.
As the descending theme recedes, the rising motive sings a fuller course on high with a new note of eager, anxious fear.
As civilization pushes upward, the hair of the pale face recedes.
The worst thing for the perfectly happy is that it recedes.
In the north sea, however, according to the unanimous testimony of those who inhabit its banks, the tide recedes hardly a cubit from the shore.
Stand before a locomotive a mile away, you cannot tell whether it approaches or recedes, yet it will dash by in a minute.
One plan is to have an overflow opening made in the bottom of the basket in such a way that as the starch wall thickens, the opening recedes toward the center.

Similar words containing CEDE without suffix s and without prefix re

cede7 ceded9 ceder8 cedes8 accede11 ceders9 incede9 recede9 secede9 acceded13 acceder12 accedes12 concede12 epicede12 inceded11 incedes10 precede12 receded11 seceded11 seceder10 secedes10 unceded11 acceders13 antecede11 conceded14 conceder13 concedes13 decedent12 epicedes13 preceded14 precedes13 reaccede13 seceders11 accedence16 anteceded13 antecedes12 conceders14 decedents13 intercede12 precedent14 reacceded15 reaccedes14 retrocede12 succedent14 supercede14 accedences17 antecedent13 concededly19 interceded14 interceder13 intercedes13 precedence17 precedency20 precedents15 retroceded14 retrocedes13 succedents15 superceded16 supercedes15 antecedence16 antecedents14 intercedent14 interceders14 precedences18 precedented17 precedently19 retrocedent14 antecedences17 antecedently18 precedencies19 precedential17 retrocedence17 retrocedences18 unprecedented19 precedentially22 unprecedentedly24

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