Thesaurus / re ceding
FEEDBACK- as inrecessive
- as inretrograde
- as invanishment
- as incontraction
- as indisappearance
- as inlapse
- as inabate
- as inpeter out
- as inback
- as inrecede
- as inreduce
- as inregress
- as inretire
- as inretract
- as inretreat
- as inshrink
- as insubside
- as intaper/taper off
- as inwithdraw
- as inback off
- as intaper
- as inretrocede
- as insuperannuate
- as incontract
- as indecline
- as indie
- as indiminish
- as indip
- as indisappear
- as indraw back
- as inebb
- as infall
- as infall back
- as inflinch
- as ingive
- sinking
- reversed
- inverted
- backward
- contrary
- inverse
- worsening
- slipping
- lapsing
- deteriorating
- receding
- declining
- catabolic
- departure
- desertion
- disintegration
- dispersal
- dissipation
- dissolution
- eclipse
- escape
- evanescence
- evaporation
- exit
- exodus
- fading
- flight
- going
- loss
- melting
- passing
- recession
- removal
- retirement
- wane
- withdrawal
- ceasing to exist
- decline and fall
- dematerialization
- disappearing act
- ebbing
- fade-out
- receding
- wearing away
- recession
- shrinkage
- reduction
- decrease
- condensation
- reducing
- compression
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- evaporation
- confinement
- lessening
- abbreviation
- narrowing
- omission
- curtailment
- withdrawal
- diminution
- shrinking
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- confining
- omitting
- deflation
- receding
- condensing
- elision
- tightening
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- diminishing
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- loss
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- dissolution
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- going
- exit
- withdrawal
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- ceasing to exist
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- cease
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- backslide
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- ebb
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- taper
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- coast
- quell
- allay
- moderate
- cool
- chill out
- let up
- taper off
- unlax
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- go with the flow
- hang easy
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- mellow out
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- depart
- drop
- back
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- close
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- go back
- retrocede
- die off
- drain away
- flow back
- go away
- trim
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- dwindle
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- slash
- diminish
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- cut down
- weaken
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- dilute
- clip
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- debase
- bankrupt
- ruin
- rebate
- moderate
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- break
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- cheapen
- diet
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- drain
- taper
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- contract
- chop
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- tone down
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- bant
- go on a diet
- lose weight
- mark down
- nutshell
- roll back
- slow down
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- taper off
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- fall back
- ebb
- revert
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- fall off
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- retreat
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- fall away
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- depart
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- go
- surrender
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- part
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- fall back
- get off
- hand over
- take off
- turn in
- rusticate
- absent oneself
- deny oneself
- get away
- give ground
- give up work
- give way
- go away
- go to bed
- go to sleep
- hit the sack
- leave service
- make vacant
- pull back
- run along
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- sever connections
- stop working
- go to one's room
- deny
- repeal
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- recall
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- call off
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- pull in
- retrocede
- take in
- pull back
- unsay
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- draw in
- forget it
- go back on
- have change of heart
- nig
- reel in
- change one's mind
- eat one's words
- reverse
- depart
- fall back
- backtrack
- retire
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- evacuate
- leave
- abandon
- back down
- go back
- withdraw
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- go
- hide
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- quail
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- beat it
- draw back
- hand over
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- cave in
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- move back
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- retreat
- huddle
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- shudder
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- hang back
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- ebb
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- melt
- descend
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- diminish
- peter out
- decline
- lower
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- taper
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- settle
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- moderate
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- get off
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- get away
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- keep aloof
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- run along
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- take a hike
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- repel
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- retire
- retract
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- retrograde
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- reverse
- turn tail
- withdraw
- drive back
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- depart
- ebb
- remove
- go
- revoke
- repeal
- secede
- exit
- separate
- resign
- part
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- surrender
- retreat
- rescind
- relinquish
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- yield
- pension
- withdraw
- regress
- draw back
- fall back
- get off
- hand over
- pull out
- take off
- turn in
- rusticate
- absent oneself
- deny oneself
- get away
- give ground
- give up work
- give way
- go away
- go to bed
- go to sleep
- hit the sack
- leave service
- make vacant
- pull back
- put out to pasture
- run along
- seclude oneself
- sever connections
- stop working
- go to one's room
- decline
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- take in
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- drop
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- worsen
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- cheapen
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- revert
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- subside
- pine
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- flag
- settle
- droop
- degenerate
- retrograde
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- rot
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- languish
- fall off
- disimprove
- go downhill
- go to pot
- go to the dogs
- hit the skids
- lose value
- end
- pass
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- expire
- fall
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- vanish
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- sink
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- diminish
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- lapse
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- retrograde
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- run down
- run out
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- fade away
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- go bad
- go downhill
- lose power
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- wane
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- dissolve
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- pass
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- pass away
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- be done for
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- be lost
- be no more
- be swallowed up
- cease to exist
- come to naught
- drop out of sight
- end gradually
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- contract
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- bow to
- fold up
- give way
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antonyms for re ceding
MOST RELEVANT
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- live
- take
- accept
- develop
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- refuse
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