Receding

Definitions

1. The action of something that recedes.
2. A recessed part.

Equivalents

Examples

“the great overflowings and recedings of the waters”

“The sombre shadows, cast⟳ by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light⟳ cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]”

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