Synonyms for Re ceding:

• adj.

  •recessive (adjective)
  • suspended,
  • latent,
  • relapsing,
  • inactive,
  • regressive,
  • dormant.
  •retrograde (adjective)
  • catabolic,
  • slipping,
  • lapsing,
  • contrary,
  • inverse,
  • inverted,
  • declining,
  • sinking,
  • backward,
  • worsening,
  • deteriorating,
  • reversed.

• n.

  •contraction (noun)
  • reduction,
  • drawing together,
  • diminishing,
  • elision,
  • omission,
  • deflating,
  • recession,
  • dwindling,
  • receding,
  • withdrawing,
  • Shrivelling,
  • tensing,
  • Curtailing,
  • narrowing,
  • diminution,
  • confinement,
  • evaporation,
  • withdrawal,
  • lessening,
  • Omitting,
  • curtailment,
  • Abridging,
  • condensing,
  • abridgment,
  • Evaporating,
  • abbreviation,
  • cutting down,
  • decreasing,
  • tightening,
  • Abbreviating,
  • condensation,
  • reducing,
  • confining,
  • Lopping,
  • shrinkage,
  • constriction,
  • shrinking,
  • compression,
  • deflation.
  •disappearance (noun)
  • dispersal,
  • ebbing,
  • going,
  • departure,
  • escape,
  • evanescence,
  • eclipse,
  • dematerialization,
  • fading,
  • retirement,
  • disappearing act,
  • disintegration,
  • passing,
  • ceasing to exist,
  • exodus,
  • dissipation,
  • loss,
  • desertion,
  • flight,
  • decline and fall,
  • exit,
  • dissolution,
  • wearing away,
  • removal,
  • melting.
  •vanishment (noun)
  • fade-out.

• v.

  •abate (verb)
  • coast,
  • quell,
  • take it easy,
  • slacken,
  • hang easy,
  • unlax,
  • dull,
  • cool,
  • recede,
  • let go,
  • mellow out,
  • hang loose,
  • taper off,
  • let it all hang out,
  • let up,
  • go with the flow,
  • subdue,
  • lay back,
  • cool it,
  • slow,
  • chill out,
  • moderate,
  • allay.
  •back (verb)
  • turn tail,
  • reverse,
  • repulse,
  • repel,
  • backtrack,
  • withdraw,
  • drive back.
  •back off (verb)
  • give up.
  •contract (verb)
  • compress,
  • grow less,
  • clench,
  • constrict,
  • abridge,
  • fall off,
  • epitomize,
  • deflate,
  • purse,
  • fall away,
  • syncopate,
  • consume,
  • abbreviate,
  • omit,
  • take in,
  • tighten,
  • waste,
  • confine,
  • shrivel,
  • draw in,
  • weaken,
  • narrow,
  • edit,
  • wrinkle,
  • wither,
  • become smaller,
  • lose,
  • evaporate,
  • curtail.
  •decline (verb)
  • depreciate,
  • worsen,
  • backslide,
  • settle,
  • pine,
  • lower,
  • rot,
  • droop,
  • degenerate,
  • languish,
  • Disimprove,
  • fall,
  • revert,
  • relapse,
  • hit the skids,
  • slide,
  • decay,
  • go to pot,
  • flag,
  • lapse,
  • go downhill,
  • lose value,
  • go to the dogs,
  • fail,
  • deteriorate,
  • disintegrate,
  • sag,
  • cheapen.
  •die (verb)
  • wilt,
  • disappear,
  • pass,
  • wear away,
  • bate,
  • run down,
  • lose power,
  • crumble,
  • vanish,
  • fade out,
  • dilapidate,
  • melt away,
  • end,
  • molder,
  • run out,
  • rankle,
  • halt,
  • break down,
  • run low,
  • expire,
  • go bad,
  • ease off,
  • fizzle out,
  • peter out,
  • stop,
  • fade away.
  •diminish (verb)
  • contract,
  • retrench,
  • extenuate,
  • drain,
  • minify,
  • temper,
  • cut,
  • attenuate,
  • die out.
  •dip (verb)
  • go down,
  • skew,
  • slump,
  • slip,
  • veer,
  • swoop,
  • plunge,
  • incline,
  • skid,
  • reach,
  • set,
  • verge,
  • spiral,
  • nose-dive,
  • tilt,
  • tumble,
  • slue,
  • slant,
  • plummet,
  • slope,
  • drop down,
  • sheer,
  • bend.
  •disappear (verb)
  • decamp,
  • evanesce,
  • pass away,
  • leave,
  • fly,
  • disperse,
  • vamoose,
  • die,
  • dissolve,
  • be no more,
  • vacate,
  • clear,
  • go,
  • abscond,
  • melt,
  • dematerialize,
  • leave no trace,
  • perish,
  • Evanish,
  • take flight,
  • flee,
  • dissipate,
  • cease to exist,
  • abandon,
  • go south,
  • be lost,
  • end gradually,
  • be gone,
  • be done for,
  • drop out of sight,
  • be swallowed up,
  • come to naught.
  •draw back (verb)
  • discount,
  • reel in,
  • subtract,
  • sheathe,
  • take away,
  • start back,
  • pull back,
  • deduct,
  • recoil.
  •ebb (verb)
  • go out,
  • relent,
  • die down.
  •fall (verb)
  • collapse,
  • dive,
  • land,
  • buckle,
  • ease,
  • flop,
  • drag,
  • take a header,
  • hit the dirt,
  • topple,
  • trail,
  • cave in,
  • stumble,
  • be precipitated,
  • gravitate,
  • crash,
  • pitch,
  • cascade,
  • keel over,
  • trip,
  • fold up,
  • dip,
  • totter,
  • tip over,
  • spin.
  •fall back (verb)
  • yield,
  • surrender,
  • give back.
  •flinch (verb)
  • blink,
  • elude,
  • blanch,
  • cringe,
  • shirk,
  • blench,
  • cower,
  • shun,
  • swerve,
  • balk,
  • crouch,
  • eschew,
  • avoid,
  • quail,
  • start,
  • duck,
  • evade.
  •give (verb)
  • concede,
  • give way,
  • cave,
  • devote,
  • open,
  • cede,
  • crumple,
  • relax,
  • bow to,
  • break,
  • flex,
  • grant,
  • allow,
  • lend,
  • relinquish,
  • fold,
  • hand over.
  •lapse (verb)
  • cease,
  • apostatize,
  • recidivate,
  • become obsolete,
  • terminate,
  • go by,
  • descend,
  • elapse.
  •peter out (verb)
  • give out,
  • come to nothing,
  • rebate,
  • pall,
  • run dry.
  •recede (verb)
  • drain away,
  • die off,
  • retrogress,
  • drop,
  • dwindle,
  • regress,
  • back,
  • retire,
  • depart,
  • close,
  • go back,
  • Retrocede,
  • reduce,
  • draw back,
  • subside,
  • fade,
  • retrograde,
  • lessen,
  • retract,
  • diminish,
  • fall back,
  • ebb,
  • retreat,
  • abate,
  • decline,
  • taper,
  • flow back,
  • return,
  • wane,
  • decrease,
  • shrink,
  • sink,
  • go away.
  •reduce (verb)
  • go on a diet,
  • depress,
  • tone down,
  • impair,
  • impoverish,
  • shave,
  • chop,
  • shorten,
  • debase,
  • clip,
  • pauperize,
  • bant,
  • scale down,
  • dilute,
  • step down,
  • mark down,
  • slow down,
  • ruin,
  • slash,
  • diet,
  • nutshell,
  • lose weight,
  • slim,
  • bankrupt,
  • cut back,
  • roll back,
  • take off weight,
  • trim,
  • wind down,
  • cut down,
  • truncate,
  • turn down,
  • pare.
  •regress (verb)
  • lose ground,
  • turn back,
  • throw back.
  •retire (verb)
  • hit the sack,
  • give up work,
  • get away,
  • seclude oneself,
  • secede,
  • rusticate,
  • take off,
  • remove,
  • go to sleep,
  • revoke,
  • go to one's room,
  • rescind,
  • turn in,
  • separate,
  • absent oneself,
  • give ground,
  • go to bed,
  • leave service,
  • resign,
  • run along,
  • sever connections,
  • stop working,
  • make vacant,
  • repeal,
  • part,
  • pull out,
  • deny oneself,
  • get off.
  •retract (verb)
  • call off,
  • disown,
  • disclaim,
  • back out of,
  • countermand,
  • have change of heart,
  • pull in,
  • exclude,
  • disavow,
  • nig,
  • recall,
  • eat one's words,
  • eliminate,
  • go back on,
  • abjure,
  • rule out,
  • cancel,
  • welsh,
  • change one's mind,
  • suspend,
  • take back,
  • unsay,
  • renege,
  • recant,
  • forswear,
  • repudiate,
  • back off,
  • back down,
  • forget it,
  • renounce,
  • deny.
  •retreat (verb)
  • disengage,
  • lay down,
  • move back,
  • opt out,
  • run,
  • keep aloof,
  • quit,
  • back away,
  • keep apart,
  • back out,
  • sequester,
  • reel,
  • go along with,
  • evacuate,
  • hide,
  • beat it.
  •retrocede (verb)
  • retrace one's steps,
  • backpedal.
  •shrink (verb)
  • demur,
  • refuse,
  • scruple,
  • boggle,
  • shudder,
  • huddle,
  • flinch,
  • hang back,
  • wince,
  • slink.
  •subside (verb)
  • de-escalate,
  • quieten,
  • level off,
  • die away,
  • lull.
  •superannuate (verb)
  • put out to pasture,
  • pension.
  •taper/taper off (verb)
  • come to a point,
  • thin out,
  • thin.
  •withdraw (verb)
  • book,
  • detach,
  • switch,
  • draw away,
  • extract,
  • take a hike,
  • drop out,
  • phase out,
  • bail out,
  • take out,
  • bow out,
  • check out,
  • make oneself scarce,
  • get lost,
  • ease out,
  • exfiltrate,
  • blow,
  • take leave.

Antonyms for Re ceding:

• adj.

  • recessive
    overbalancing, prevailing, dominant.
  • retrograde
    positive.

• n.

  • contraction
    dilation, spread, lengthening, extension, opening, stretch, enlargement, amplification, expansion.
  • disappearance
    Staying, coming, stay, arrival, entrance, appearance.

• v.

  • abate
    win, intensify, revive, incite, magnify, amplify.
  • back
    dissuade, go forward, discourage, attract.
  • contract
    disagree, loose, break off, add, save, lengthen, release, dilate, give, free, let go, open, loosen, blow up.
  • decline
    say yes, go up, improve, flourish, reach, accept, build, laud, praise, progress, compliment.
  • die
    live, commence, bear, be born, appear, start, arrive.
  • diminish
    flatter.
  • dip
    straighten, level, even.
  • disappear
    come, coagulate, keep, wait, remain, solidify, come in, fight.
  • ebb
    flow.
  • fall
    scale, lose, overthrow, climb, overcome, attain.
  • flinch
    take on, confront.
  • give
    deny, hold, tighten, hold up, conceal, put together, finish, withstand, refrain, withhold, refuse, take, join.
  • lapse
    restart, get better, initiate, go on.
  • recede
    meet, expand, strengthen, forge, face, rise, continue, extend, raise, prolong, enter, advance, enlarge, ascend, increase, begin, grow, forward, enhance, develop.
  • reduce
    upgrade, invigorate.
  • retire
    approve.
  • retract
    admit, allow, repeat, corroborate, acknowledge, enforce, agree, welcome, include, sanction, permit, reaffirm, emphasize.
  • shrink
    consent.
  • withdraw
    persevere, unite, engage, combine.