Recede is valid Scrabble Word

Is recede a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for RECEDE in dictionary:

VERB:

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
move to a more distant place
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

pull back or move away or backward
become faint or more distant
(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 RECEDE

receded11 recedes10 receding12

Words that contain RECEDE

precede12 receded11 recedes10 preceded14 precedes13 precedent14 precedence17 precedency20 precedents15 precedences18 precedented17 precedently19 precedencies19 precedential17 unprecedented19 precedentially22 unprecedentedly24

How to use RECEDE in a sentence

The sky seemed to recede, turned from grey to misty blue.
I have gone too far to recede, or to wish to recede.
Or the Allies, finding the task too great, may retire and allow this huge province, probably the wealthiest part of the world, to recede back to the barbarism of the Bolshevik.
Here the lines converge as they recede into the geological ages, and point to conclusions which, upon the theory, are inevitable, but by no means welcome.
Mountains, towers, rocks, the further they recede from our view, appear as a mere outline through a veil of blue haze.
And while I contemplated the matter, I knew that they continued to recede.
But he had too much pride and too little manhood to recede from a false position already taken.
A third time he struck it, and it seemed to recede.
One devoutly hopes for a good spell of it as we recede from the windy northern region.
But to account for the sounds which interrupted their conversation, it is necessary to recede a little way in our narrative.

Those mountain-peaks, dim and shadowy in the distance and seeming to recede as they were approached, had ever been an alluring sight to the gold-seeking Spaniards.
This only decides how far the curve marked out by the satellite will recede from the equator.
Rome, unwilling either to recede from her pretensions or to provoke a powerful monarch, gives a dubious answer.
But Rome had not made so bold a step with intention to recede.
I may say, that as I recede from them, I dwell on them the more.
As the stars recede he stretches his hand to his companion, breathes once more, looking him in the face, joyous in the attainment of final rest.
As might be reasonably expected, this maximum of heat is so much less considerable as we recede from the focus.
For example, when we approach or recede from a physical object we have a series of experiences which are recognized as sensational.
As war has been narrowing and receding before politics, politics in turn must narrow and recede before morality.
But when we got beyond the atmosphere, and the earth still continued to recede below us, its aspect changed.
This was raised, and again the hours passed in miserable waiting for a death which seemed to recede.
But the duke was too far advanced to recede from his criminal and ambitious purpose.
Conceiving that they had gone too far to recede, they were resolutely determined not to yield their claim of right.
One of the terms of the treaty was that the Russian frontier should recede from the Danube.
It seems a law of nature that animals not useful to man gradually recede from the domains he occupies, or even become extinct.
When the volcanic fire was burnt out, and the water cooled, it would of course contract to its former dimensions, and the ocean recede.
As they recede in the distance they must have a higher position, so that every one will be seen.
He found that the land on the other side began to recede from the ocean, and that there was a small sandy beach below him.
The coast-line began to recede in a southerly direction, and the sea continued to be encumbered with islands.
For fully thirty seconds he said no word, and as they slipped away she saw the dreadful wave of passion gradually recede.
So as we recede we finally arrive at the pioneer vessels, the Sirius and Great Western, crossing in fourteen to eighteen days at a speed of 6 to 8 knots.
He saw it, too, on a somewhat misty day recede to a distance and almost evaporate, delicate and quivering, like a fairy palace.
Her history does not indeed ever again recede into the complete obscurity of earlier ages.
But no sooner did he recede than the Cossacks arose on every hand, and assailed the fugitives.
This tremor causes the disk to approach and recede from the magnetic pole placed just behind the diaphragm.

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