Crossword-Solution: RECEDES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RECEDES | anagram | DECREES, SECEDER |
We have 26 clues for the answer “RECEDES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| What a hairline sometimes does | 1 answer |
| Slopes backwards. | 1 answer |
| Slopes backward | 1 answer |
| Moves back, as a hairline | 1 answer |
| Grows less. | 1 answer |
| Diminishes, as a hairline | 1 answer |
| Moves away | 2 answers |
| Moves back | 2 answers |
| Goes out, like the tide | 2 answers |
| Flows back | 2 answers |
| Gives way | 4 answers |
| Flows out | 5 answers |
| Pulls back | 6 answers |
| Falls back | 7 answers |
| Draws back | 7 answers |
| GOES back | 8 answers |
| Shrinks | 9 answers |
| Ebbs | 10 answers |
| Dwindles | 10 answers |
| Abates | 11 answers |
| Subsides | 12 answers |
| Wanes | 13 answers |
| Goes down | 15 answers |
| Diminishes | 17 answers |
| Withdraws | 17 answers |
| Retreats | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECEDES (5)
Songs empty, yet airy, I've striven to write, For failure, dear Mary! Forgive me--Good-night! Songs and flowers may beset you, I can only regret you, While the soil where I met you Recedes from my sight.
The Lamp of Life Always we are following a light, Always the light recedes; with groping hands We stretch toward this glory, while the lands We journey through are hidden from our sight Dim and mysterious, folded deep in night, We care not, all our utmost need demands Is but the light, the light! So still it stands Surely our own if we exert our might.
Negro Folk Songs and Tales WEST OF A WAVERING line along the western edge of the central parts of Texas and Oklahoma the Negro is not an important social or cultural element of the Southwest, just as the modern Indian hardly enters into Texas life at all and the Mexican recedes to the east.
The Gypsy pulls the bell, when is heard the soft cry of ‘Quien es’; the door, unlocked by means of a string, recedes upon its hinges, when in walks the Gitána, the witch-wife of Multan, with a look such as the tiger-cat casts when she stealeth from her jungle into the plain.
The beautiful teeth project a little, flashing out the smile of the large characteristic mouth, and the chin recedes.
Quotes with RECEDES (3)
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.
We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it lies already in the nature of the explanations themselves that they cannot be sufficient. *Physics* is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a *metaphysics* on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter. For it explains phenomena by something still more unknown than are they, namely by laws of nature resting on forces…
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is "really" there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again." from Coleridge: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 46 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).