(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.
Ricochet
Definition:
(n.) A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.
(v. t.) To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.
(v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(2) Lateral repair of the aorta and pulmonary artery was performed as well as reinforcement of the posterior aortic wall which was weakened by the bullet as it ricocheted within the aorta.
(3) The etiology was the following: 34 wounds by knife, 3 due to ricocheted bolt and 16 by abdominal contusions.
(4) Everything started to unravel for Spurs a minute before half-time when Willian’s free-kick skimmed off Rose’s head, ricocheted off Dier and dropped invitingly for Terry.
(5) And then some suicidal defending almost allows Portland an opening goal, as a ricochet into the box is greeted by Hurtado and Gspurning both leaving it for each other before the keeper belatedly dives for it.
(6) Sagna won the header from a corner and the ball ricocheted off another play to Koscielny, who was standing three yards out.
(7) Amid everything else Bilic was not even asked about that moment, barely 70 seconds into the match, when the France midfielder Dimitri Payet clipped a free-kick into the penalty area and Cheikhou Kouyaté’s header flicked off Schmeichel’s glove, ricocheted off the inside of one post before striking the opposite side of the goal frame and, almost in slow motion, rebounding into the goalkeeper’s grateful arms.
(8) Ibrahimovic closed the City player down and he tried to clear his lines only for the ball to ricochet off the centre-forward and in for PSG’s equaliser.
(9) From the ensuing move the ball ricocheted off Chris Smalling, following a Bojan Krkic run, and into Steven Nzonzi’s path.
(10) They could afford to fluff their lines with Bournemouth’s own glimpses of goal sporadic, and invariably limited to chaotic ricochets in the penalty area, but those are the chances that may need to be taken in the matches against Liverpool, Manchester United and Stoke City after the international break.
(11) One of the officers fired warning shots and, in his words, one of the migrants was wounded by a ricochet and later died.” A regional prosecutor has launched an investigation while the other Afghan men in the group are currently in detention.
(12) As soon as the ricochet went against Gerrard, England were in trouble.
(13) Hernández had another sighting but, after a Michael Dawson tackle and a ricochet, Lloris gathered.
(14) Cudlipp recognised his new recruit's potential instantly, and gleefully sent him ricochetting about the world.
(15) The visitors mustered their first shot in the 31st minute, when a long-range effort from Ales Mertelj flew just over via a ricochet off Tom Carroll.
(16) Now, in the Arab ghettos, where in reality colonial rules still apply, people talk about le ricochet of the Kouachi brothers’ bullets: on Muslims in France and elsewhere.
(17) The ricochet fell into Lampard's path and suddenly David Forde in the Ireland goal was hopelessly exposed.
(18) They pulled level with the scrappiest of tries, Luke Robinson's grubber kick taking a series of ricochets before Danny Brough plunged on the loose ball between the posts.
(19) Since co-founding Shed Productions a decade ago, Gallagher has spearheaded the expansion of the group into Shed Media, acquiring and integrating other companies including Ricochet, Twenty Twenty and Wall to Wall.
(20) Steel nails that are bent are due to a ricochet and thus indicate accidental injury.