Definition of "receding" []

• Present participle of recede. (verb)

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• "(By the way, the water is receding from the back garden now - it's gone down at least 4 inches from the photos.)"
• "As the flood waters begin receding, Americans are also beginning to gain some much-needed perspective on our fragile place in the natural world."
• "COOPER: Joe, when you're on a campaign, do the people in the campaign, when something changes, and Gloria was talking about things changing, the word receding other things, do you feel it in the campaign?"