(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.
Return
Definition:
(v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
(v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
(v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.
(v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
(v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
(v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
(v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
(v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
(v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
(v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known.
(v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
(v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
(v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
(v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
(v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
(v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
(n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
(n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
(n.) That which is returned.
(n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
(n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question.
(n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
(n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
(n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
(n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
(n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
(n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
(n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below.
(n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
(n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(4) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(5) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
(6) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(8) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(9) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(10) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(11) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(12) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(13) Results indicate that energy had not returned to patients' satisfaction in 37% of the cases.
(14) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(15) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
(16) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(17) These results indicate that during IPPV the increased Pcv attenuates the pressure gradient for venous return and decreases CO and that the compensatory increase in Psf is caused by a blood shift from unstressed to stressed blood volume.
(18) A 99.0% response rate was obtained: 2750 of a possible 2778 diaries were returned.
(19) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(20) But whatever they invested in me, they got in return 10, 20 times more.