Modifying Another Word

• gradually: The only fixed point is the Crask Inn itself, which gradually recedes into the distance behind you.

• somewhat: The above level of booze intake really did cause the awful cacophony of small noises to recede somewhat.

Object

• tide: Fish became stranded in the hull of the vessel during receding tides.

• glacier: Also there is no worry about receding glaciers, rockfall or early hut starts.

• gum: The most common cause of sensitive teeth in adults is exposed tooth roots due to receding gums.

• water: Pictures of the receding waters of the Ouse taken by Mister P in early August 2002.

Adjective complement

• further: In short, I got on with my life while polio receded ever further in my memory.

Preposition: into

• background: On the other side of the path are many trees receding into the background.

• past: The means by which we got here is receding into the past.

Used with why or when

• when: This came to nothing and the coup threat receded when the Conservatives won the 1970 general election.

Modifying Another Word

• slowly: Inflation is steadily if slowly receding despite the alarmist warnings of many experts.

• quickly: About me:- 6ft in height and same in width, fat, and receding very quickly lol.

• fast: Blair found himself on a bridge from which the European shoreline was fast receding.

Preposition: from

• earth: UNIVERSAL EXPANSION 5 ) A distant galaxy in the constellation Hydra is receding from the Earth at 6.12 x 10 7 m/sec.