Synonyms and Antonyms of receding
1
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
- the sound of sirens receded as the fire engines roared off into the distance
abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down) also
racheting (down)
, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning
compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting
evaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishing
slackening, slowing (down)
alleviating, relaxing
flagging, sinking, weakening
caving (in), collapsing, deflating
accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning (also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing
2
to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)
- after the rain stops, the floodwaters should gradually recede
fleeing, flying
flinching, recoiling, shrinking
chickening (out)
bowing out
backing down, backpedaling, backtracking, climbing down
detaching, disengaging, disentangling, pulling away
abandoning, departing, evacuating, going, leaving, quitting, vacating
