Crossword-Solution: RECEDED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Receded | imp. & p. p. | of Recede |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RECEDED | anagram | DECREED |
We have 20 clues for the answer “RECEDED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Withdrew (from). | 1 answer |
| Went back, as a hairline | 1 answer |
| Moved, like many hairlines | 1 answer |
| Moved back | 1 answer |
| Grew distant | 1 answer |
| Fell back, as a tide | 1 answer |
| Became more distant | 1 answer |
| Flowed back | 2 answers |
| Went lower | 2 answers |
| Lost ground | 3 answers |
| Moved away. | 3 answers |
| Fell away. | 3 answers |
| Shrank | 4 answers |
| Pulled back. | 5 answers |
| Drew Back | 7 answers |
| Went back | 8 answers |
| Ebbed | 8 answers |
| Withdrew | 12 answers |
| Contracted | 28 answers |
| diminished | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECEDED (5)
The little vessel continued to beat its way seaward, and the ironclads receded slowly towards the coast, which was hidden still by a marbled bank of vapour, part steam, part black gas, eddying and combining in the strangest way.
Away! Before I go mad and slay you.” Slowly the color mounted to the neck and face of the giant—then suddenly it receded, leaving him as ashen as death.
The voices of the men and the lions receded in the distance, until finally quiet reigned about me, broken only by the sweet voices of birds and the sighing of the summer wind in the trees.
Rowland noted the difference between his present frankness and his reticence during the first six months of his engagement, and sometimes wondered whether it was not rather an anomaly that he should expatiate more largely as the happy event receded.
Before he had receded two yards from the doorstep, Unity and Ann the housemaid came home from their visit to the village.
Quotes with RECEDED (3)
Marcus's fear that his wife might succumb to childbed fever receded day by day as Lillian returned to her old self, healthy and slender and vigorous. His relief was vast. He had never known such overwhelming love for one person, nor had he anticipated that Lillian would so quickly become his essential requirement for happiness. Anything that was in his power to do for Lillian would be done.
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe...... We live in a special time, the o…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).