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Receded vs Retrocede - What's the difference?

receded | retrocede |

As verbs the difference between receded and retrocede

is that receded is (recede) while retrocede is .

receded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (recede)

    • Anagrams

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    recede

    English

    Verb

    (reced)
  • To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
  • * Dryden
    • Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.
  • * Bentley
    • All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.
  • To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
    • to recede conquered territory
  • To take back.

    • Synonyms

    * withdraw

    Derived terms

    * receding

    Related terms

    * cede * recedence * recession * recess * recessive

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    retrocede

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To grant back.
    • to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor
  • To go back.
  • * 1994 , David F Drake, Reforming the health care market: an interpretive economic history
    • Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era.
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