Simple past tense and past participle of recede.(verb)
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Use "receded" in a sentence
"Yet as the Revolution slowed, the phrase receded.136 With Thermidor, or the end of Revolutionary Terror, newspapers and local governments urged citizens to remove it."
"To her relief, the pain receded within a few hours."
"Floodwaters also engulfed the playing field all the way up to the first row of seats in the stadium, but by Wednesday had receded from the stadium."