Definition of "receded" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of recede. (verb)

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• "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."