Crossword-Solution: RECEDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Receding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Recede |
We have 60 clues for the answer “RECEDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like some hairlines | 1 answer |
| Flowing back | 4 answers |
| protem | 39 answers |
| flitting | 40 answers |
| disappearing | 40 answers |
| gliding by | 41 answers |
| fugacious | 41 answers |
| dissipating | 41 answers |
| Deciduous | 41 answers |
| flashing by | 42 answers |
| Vanishing | 42 answers |
| Stopgap | 42 answers |
| speeding by | 42 answers |
| visiting | 42 answers |
| perishable | 43 answers |
| nonce | 43 answers |
| degenerating | 43 answers |
| shrivelling | 43 answers |
| flexing | 43 answers |
| metamorphosing | 43 answers |
| Tensing | 43 answers |
| truncation | 44 answers |
| tightening | 44 answers |
| constricting | 44 answers |
| discontinuous | 44 answers |
| altering | 44 answers |
| Ebbing | 44 answers |
| migratory | 45 answers |
| Going by | 45 answers |
| withdrawing | 45 answers |
| transitory | 46 answers |
| curtailment | 46 answers |
| Sinking ___ | 47 answers |
| evanescent | 47 answers |
| impermanent | 47 answers |
| momentary | 48 answers |
| Momentarily | 48 answers |
| to pass | 49 answers |
| deteriorating | 49 answers |
| tightness | 49 answers |
| meagreness | 49 answers |
| rigidity | 50 answers |
| Ephemeral | 51 answers |
| abating | 51 answers |
| starvation | 53 answers |
| Diminution | 54 answers |
| Temporal | 55 answers |
| Inflexibility | 56 answers |
| Makeshift | 60 answers |
| departing | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MACZEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RECEDING (5)
Our last glimpse of her shows her at the window, watching them receding into the sky until they were as small as stars.
Partly stunned, he found himself facing the man who had held the horse’s head, and became aware of the chaise receding from him down the lane, swaying from side to side, and with the women in it looking back.
This is a good time to harden your chest.” Thea lay still and heard her mother’s firm step receding along the bare floor of the trunk loft.
Scarcely had it started than I gave the signal to Tars Tarkas, simultaneously springing for the receding half of the pivoting door.
Another one, presently; after an interval, two more; at three-fifty another one—very long, with many crosses, gold-embroidered robes, and much white lace; also great pictured banners, at intervals, receding into the distance.
Quotes with RECEDING (3)
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning. They're right. It does. However much you beg it to stop. It turns and lets grenadine spill over the horizon, sends hard bars of gold through my window and I wake up and feel happy for three seconds and then I remember. It turns and tips people out of their beds and into their cars, their offices, an avalanche of tiny men and women tumbling throu…
What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is a very moving passage where Achilles overjoyed at the sight of the apparition — tries to throw his arms around the ghost of his old friend, and it vanishes. The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us se…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2000–2013).