(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
(2) If the role of surgery has receded somewhat in other areas of gynaecological cancer, the reverse would seem to be true in ovarian cancer.
(3) Here's the details: • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS FRENCH DEFICIT AT 4.1% OF GDP IN 2013, 3.8% IN 2014, 3.7% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS ITALIAN DEFICIT AT 3.0% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.7% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS SPANISH DEFICIT AT 6.8% OF GDP IN 2013, 5.9% IN 2014, 6.6% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS GREEK DEFICIT AT 13.5% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.0% IN 2014, 1.1% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS PORTUGUESE DEFICIT AT 5.9% OF GDP IN 2013, 4.0% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS CYPRUS DEFICIT AT 8.3% OF GDP IN 2013, 8.4% IN 2014, 6.3% IN 2015 Sony Kapoor of the ReDefine thinktank tweets that the forecasts show that European leaders should not be talking about the crisis being over, even though the risk of the euro breaking up has receded.
(4) Attacks provoked by glyceryl trinitrate appeared to begin when the vasodilatory effect of this substance was receding.
(5) Now is the time to help our neighbours in distress, listen to their stories, and remember them when the floodwaters recede.
(6) It’s time for governments, business and people the world over to respond and the most obvious place to start is by calling a halt to Shell’s reckless search for Arctic oil.” NSIDC is yet to provide a full analysis of this year’s melt, noting that there is a chance that changing wind patterns or low season melt could see the ice recede further.
(7) However, tuberculosis has not receded uniformly among all segments of the population.
(8) Increased activity persists in the high density lipoproteins after the lipemia recedes.
(9) We are up against a very strong king tide so some of the floodwater will take time to recede.” New Zealand prime minister Bill English addressed the situation on social media on Saturday.
(10) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.
(11) During the further course of treatment the symptoms receded under heparin and phenprocoumon over a period of 8 months, except for hemiparesis on the left side especially affecting the arm.
(12) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
(13) These glaciers are receding world-wide, in the Himalayas, Andes and Rocky Mountains.
(14) These are reciprocal schemes which in turn become progressively anonymous as they recede away from the face to face situation.
(15) The sensomotoric and speech symptoms receded only slightly.
(16) Lung function normalised during this treatment course, radiological findings and antibody titres receded.
(17) The concept of a regional solution has gradually receded further into the background.
(18) The chorea receded and disappeared as the patient became euthyroid.
(19) Addressing concerns over her health, Clinton told 60 Minutes that she still had some lingering effects from the concussion that led to her blood clot, but that the doctors had told her that they would recede.
(20) Responses including a cellular infiltrate in the anterior chamber, protein extravasation, and iris vessel dilatation became evident within six hours, peaked at 24 hours, and began to recede by 48 to 72 hours after the injection.
Regrade
Definition:
(v. i.) To retire; to go back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subjects then used one of three treatment regimens, were retested for accumulated plaque and regraded.
(2) In Wales, the education minister, Leighton Andrews, ordered the WJEC exam board to regrade Welsh students' English papers.
(3) After 30 minutes, a second injection of placebo or naloxone was given, and the patient was regraded a third time.
(4) Challenged on whether he or anyone else should do anything to restore or change the grades achieved by pupils in England in June, Gove said: "If we were to regrade, or firstly if I were to instruct Ofqual or exam boards to regrade, I would destroy the independence of the regulator.
(5) Michael Gove has condemned the "irresponsible and mistaken" decision of the Welsh education minister, Leighton Andrews, to intervene in the disputed GCSEs grades by ordering a regrading exercise.
(6) Both the location and the dimensions of the wound as well as the breaking strength of the injured muscles remained inside such narrow limits that the trauma can be regraded as constant.
(7) Areas identified by others as area 3a should probably be regraded as parts of area 3b.
(8) The regulator insisted it would be inappropriate for either of the sets of exams to be regraded.
(9) Five minutes later, the same observer regraded the patient.
(10) The documents set out their case for a regrading of GCSE English papers taken by pupils this summer.
(11) Two thousand 300 students who took exams set by the Welsh exam board WJEC in Wales have already been regraded on the orders of the Welsh government, which regulates exams set there.
(12) There has been, as Guy Standing remarks in The Precariat , an orgy of regrading and redefining jobs as less skilled so that they qualify for lower wages; there has also been a growing confidence that employers do not need to pay higher wages in every annual wage round.
(13) The alliance is demanding Ofqual , the exam regulator in England, orders a regrade or face moves to force a judicial review in the high court.
(14) The women accepted a pay increase, still less than the men, but the regrading issue was not resolved until after another strike years later, in 1984, when they were finally classified as skilled workers.
(15) All cases were regraded according to a classification of Isaacson et al into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma.
(16) There was no difference between SLE and progressive polyarthritis as regrads the cold precipitation of rheumatoid factors.
(17) The common misconception of Norrie's disease being regraded as microphthalmia or hereditary corneal dystrophy instead of phthisis is noted.
(18) All lesions were regraded blind and twice by two pathologists.
(19) If a restructuring is essential, neither they nor I can see any reason why Marie and her colleagues shouldn’t have their jobs regraded and their pay preserved.
(20) It is being brought by an alliance of pupils, schools, councils and professional bodies, who want the students regraded after the boundary for a grade C in GCSE English was raised between January and June.