Related Words for receding

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retreating
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Noun, Verb
recession
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Verb, Noun
backward
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective, Noun
retiring
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Noun, Adjective, Noun
low
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Noun, Verb
ebb
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Verb, Verb
gain
/
Verb, Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb
win
/
Adverb, Verb, Noun
gain ground
//
Phrase, Noun, Verb
get ahead
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Phrase, Verb
make headway
//x
Phrase, Verb
march on
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Name, Verb
move on
//
Phrase, Verb
pass on
//
Phrase, Verb
vanishing
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Noun
fading
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Noun
disappearing
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Verb
shrinking
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Noun
diminishing
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Verb
subsiding
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Verb
eroding
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Verb
rising
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Verb
horizon
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Noun
evaporating
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Verb
encroaching
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Noun
thinning
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Noun
darkening
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Noun
surging
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Adjective
accelerating
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Verb
creeping
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Verb
westward
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Noun
reappearing
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Verb
cresting
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Noun
graying
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Noun
southward
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Noun
eastward
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Noun
slowing
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Verb
stagnating
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Verb
steadily
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Adverb
intensifying
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Verb
waning
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Noun
advancing
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Verb
inexorably
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Adverb
dissipating
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Verb
looming
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Verb
rapidly
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Adverb
sinking
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Noun
trickling
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Noun
falling
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Verb
inching
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Verb
deteriorating
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Verb
emerging
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Verb
drifting
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Verb
deepening
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Verb
decelerating
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Verb
approaching
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Verb
northward
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Adverb
farther
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Adverb
dwindling
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Noun
disintegrating
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Noun
slowly
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Adverb
monotonically
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Adverb
curving
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Verb
seeping
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Verb
decreasing
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Verb
tide
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Noun
collapsing
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Verb
greying
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Verb
degenerating
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Verb
flowing
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Verb
downward
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Adjective
hastening
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Verb
swelling
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Verb
diverging
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Noun
extending
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Verb
worsening
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Verb
declining
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Verb
faltering
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Adjective
growing
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Verb
slipping
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Verb
distant
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Adjective
increasing
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Verb
obscuring
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Verb
coming
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Verb
hairline
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Noun
veering
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Verb
slackening
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Noun
lingering
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Adjective
progressing
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Verb
weakening
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Noun
drooping
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Verb
converging
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Noun
bobbing
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Noun
shore
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Noun
clinging
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Verb
descending
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Verb
wobbling
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Noun
upward
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Adjective
widening
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Noun
decaying
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Verb
gradually
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Adverb
gravitating
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Verb
lapsing
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Verb
shoreline
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Noun
clouding
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Noun
inclining
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Verb
lapping
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Noun
peaking
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Noun
evolving
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Verb
downslope
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Noun
persisting
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Verb
proliferating
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Noun
seeming
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Verb
tottering
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Verb
engulfing
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Noun
recessive
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Adjective
retrograde
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Adjective
back
/
Adverb
rearward
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Adjective
reverted
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Verb
backsliding
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Noun
retracted
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Verb
regressive
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Adjective
regressing
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Verb
recurrent
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Adjective
retrospective
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Adjective
resurgent
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Noun
to and fro
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Phrase, Adverb, Verb, Adjective, Noun
reversionary
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Adjective
reverberate
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Noun
reentrant
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Adjective
prodigal
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Noun
relict
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Noun
reclaimed
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Adjective
retro
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Noun
reversal
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Noun
mandible
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Noun
memory
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Noun
surface
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Noun
phonological
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Adjective
robust
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Adverb
chins
x
Noun
floodwaters
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Noun
pandemics
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Noun
glaciers
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Noun
axis
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Verb
taillights
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Noun
phonemic
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Adjective
abating
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Noun
appears
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Noun
ascending
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Adjective, Noun
bleak
/
Adjective, Noun
bringing
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Noun
ceding
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Noun
coincident
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Adjective, Noun
correspond
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Verb
eastern
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Adjective
enchanting
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Adjective, Noun
faraway
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Noun, Adjective
flooding
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Noun
glorious
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Adjective
haunted
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Adjective
misty
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Adjective, Noun
moving
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Adjective, Noun
nearer
/x
Adjective
passing
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Noun, Adjective, Adverb
predominate
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Verb, Adjective
restoring
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Verb
shadowy
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Adjective
shrouded
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Adjective
suffice
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Verb
sunlit
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Adjective
uplifting
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Adjective, Noun
warp
/
Noun, Verb
withdrawing
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Noun
save
/
Verb, Noun
backwater
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Noun, Verb
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
get
/
Verb, Noun
breakeven
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
milestone
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Noun, Verb
die
/
Verb, Noun
tell
/
Verb, Noun
stonewall
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Name, Verb, Adjective
blow
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
stovepipe
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Noun, Verb
bulletproof
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Adjective, Verb