Receding is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RECEDING 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
NOUN:
• a slow or gradual disappearance
• the act of becoming more distant
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move back or away

Words related to RECEDING

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Words that contain RECEDING

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How to use RECEDING in a sentence

• It is this struggle with all sorts of superstitions which makes science strong and sure, and her march irresistible, winning ground slowly, but never receding from it.
• This stretched in front of the perpendicular rock, with receding walls to its verge.
• My eyes were those of an exile turned backwards upon the receding shore, and not forwards with hope upon the ocean.
• She heard his leap on the gravel below, and his cautious footsteps receding towards the park.
• He could hear the others behind him still receding towards the house.
• Parkson stared in astonishment at his receding back and ran after him to ask for the grounds of this sudden offence.
• There was a strong, warm breeze blowing in our favour, and soon my island home was receding swiftly from our view.
• Besides the low, receding forehead and protruding chin I have already hinted at as characteristic of the inland tribes, I also noticed that these people had abnormally large feet.
• They might be receding, or they might be approaching, one or the other, a little every day.
• It must have been a mighty tide whose receding waves left these masses piled up together! The same formation continues at intervals, to the foot, of the mountains.
• Sanderson could hear the clatter of hoofs, receding.
• And here we took boat, while the solemn lights of evening were receding towards the tops of the mountains.
• She kept her eyes on his receding shape, watched it disappear in dark turns, then emerge into faintly illumined stretches.
• His forehead was low, receding, and covered with short bristling hair.
• The young lady listened to his receding steps with evident displeasure.
• Then there was quiet as the shots were heard receding.
• The first receding tide after the six-day storm found the whole party on the beach.
• We know that among the group that watched the receding cloud the eyes that would linger longest and would find it hardest to turn away would be those of the Blessed Mother.
• Benches surrounded this open space upon three sides, and along the fourth were heaped huge bowlders which rose in receding tiers toward the roof.
• Fearing that this movement indicated a receding confidence Mrs.
• The six oars dropped into the water as one, and the men began to pull, getting a firm hold on the receding wave, which sent the cutter to a safe distance from the ship.
• When this happened, the street was always filled with gloom, and the receding figure of the woman lost in it for a while.

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