It had finally stopped raining, but the water had not receded yet.
He listened to no adverse criticism and receded before no obstacle.
The tunnel vision receded.
As the waters of the lake gradually receded, the rivers reached it by pushing their channels eastward through what was once its bed.
NeoPlatonism, which is in some respects nearer the Christian patristic than the Hellenic spirit, was as far as the radical religious thinkers of the Italian Renaissance receded.