receding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of recede

comparative more receding · superlative most receding

1. Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing.

   a receding hairline

plural recedings

1. The action of something that recedes.

   the great overflowings and recedings of the waters

   1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler, page 205

2. A recessed part.

   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 […]

   1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, page 20