Clues for the word "RECEDE"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 222 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on April 15, 2025.
Definition of recede
- v. i. - To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
- v. i. - To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.
- v. i. - To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.
Referring Clues
- Ebb
- Move away
- Many hairlines do it
- Withdraw
- Go back
- Many men's hairlines do this
- Fall away
- Peter out
- Reveal more forehead
- Move back
- Subside
- Give ground gradually
- Flow back
- Lose ground
- Withdraw gradually
- Fall back
- Abate
- Go back, as a hairline
- Inch back
- Drop back
- A hairline may do it
- Draw back
- Gradually diminish
- Diminish
- Wane
- Ease off
- A hairline can do it
- What gums might do
- Slope backward
- Move backward
- Draw back, as one's hairline
- What coastlines may do
- Ebb, as the tide
- Go backward
- Inch back slowly, as a hairline
- Start to lose hair
- Engineers give up and retreat
- Disappear, like a hairline
- Become more distant
- Go like the tide
- Decree (anag) - ebb
- About to give way and withdraw
- Go back on the revision of a decree
- Withdraw and give up once more
- Go backwards
- Decline
- Soldiers give up and fall back
- Go back, ebb
- About to surrender in retreat
- Old advice about concealed earthwork openings: go back!
- Regress
- Decline, as floodwaters
- Become more distant - and give up again?
- On earth, a strange creed could be regressive
- Go back; withdraw
- Move back or further away
- Fall back, like a hairline
- Lessen, as the tide
- Go back and make another concession?
- Go back to the strangest creed on earth?
- What coastlines and hairlines may do
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - April 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 24, 2025
- USA Today - February 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 30, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 18, 2024
- Daily American - November 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 15, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 15, 2024
- LA Times - March 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 21, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 14, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 18, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 13, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 05, 2023
- And in 192 more crossword puzzles...