Clues for the word "RECEDE"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 239 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 17, 2026.
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
- Evening Standard Quick - February 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 19, 2025
- LA Times - October 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 20, 2025
- LA Times - August 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 25, 2025
- 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
- And in 209 more crossword puzzles...