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Receding vs Returning - What's the difference?

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Receding is a related term of returning.


As verbs the difference between receding and returning

is that receding is while returning is .

As nouns the difference between receding and returning

is that receding is the action of something that recedes while returning is the act of one who returns; a coming back.

receding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of something that recedes.
  • * 1829 , Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler (page 205)
    • the great overflowings and recedings of the waters

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    returning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who returns; a coming back.
  • * 2012 , Michael Phillips, Land of the Brave and the Free (page 221)
    • It was a time of returnings . Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.