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ABATE |
Recede |
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DWINDLE |
Recede |
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EBB |
Recede |
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RECEDED |
Of Recede |
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RECEDING |
Of Recede |
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GIVE |
To move; to recede. |
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WAIVE |
To turn aside; to recede. |
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CENTRIFUGAL |
Tending, or causing, to recede from the center. |
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ACCEDE |
To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. |
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RESILE |
To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. |
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PULLBACK |
That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a
hindrance. |
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BACK |
To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede;
as, to back oxen. |
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DIE |
To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to
vanish; -- often with out or away. |
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VAIL |
To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by
yielding, uncovering, or the like. |
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RECEDE |
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former
possessor; as, to recede conquered territory. |
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RETIRE |
To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the
sea retires in bays and gulfs. |
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INSTABLE |
Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to
change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant. |
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ELONGATE |
To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede
apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. |
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DIMINISH |
To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as,
the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it. |
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PERSPECTIVE |
The art and the science of so delineating objects that
they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called
also linear perspective. |
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STEP |
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising
and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both
feet in succession. |
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LESSEN |
To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to
be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we
recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened. |
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TENSION |
Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a
body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger
space; elastic forc... |
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REPULSION |
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action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede
from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as,
mol... |
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DIVERGE |
To extend from a common point in different directions;
to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread
apart; to turn asid... |