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recedes

vb. (en-third-person singular of: recede)

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End and the Scilly Isles, Ushant and Cape Finisterre, are projecting features along the middle distance of the picture, and the English Channel recedes endwise as a tapering avenue near the centre.

The exterior of the Cathedral takes the place of the interior, and the point of view recedes, the whole fabric smalling into distance and becoming like a rare, delicately carved alabaster ornament.

THIRD AIDE Our left wing, sire, recedes before Davout, Whom nothing can withstand!

The charge recedes, And lo, the tough lines rank there as before, Save that they are shrunken.

The action of the battle degenerates to a hunt, and recedes further and further into the distance southward.