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Recede Means Pull Back Cede Rɪ'Siːd V.后退 House

Front recede
Pron [rɪ'siːd]
Back 【recede】
v.后退
House and trees seem to recede as we ride past in a trian.
当我们乘火车经过时,房屋和树木似乎向后退。
Vocab
recedepull back or move away or backward

Recede means to pull back, retreat, or become faint or distant. Flood waters recede, as do glaciers, and even abstractions like "panic" and "hope." Think "receding hairline." (That means bald.)

Cede means to yield. Politicians, after losing an election will "cede the field" or "concede the race." Recede means to yield back. Over time it has collected a sense of fading, or growing faint, as in "The ghostly vision of a woman receded into the fog."

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