Actually, if you take one forward and two back, you slowly recede.
Because they recede they make a shallow space seem deeper.
Others argue that the structure and financing of academe itself have encouraged philosophers to recede from view.
Ceiling panels are divided into jagged shards, and pieces of wall jut out or recede.
As the horizon of a release date continued to recede, the atmosphere at the company's offices grew increasingly unpleasant.
It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner.
So the galaxies recede from one another because the space between them is expanding.
Subtle shifts in average temperature increase both downpours and droughts while glaciers slowly recede.
But, as the world's glaciers recede, melting ice is also contributing to the rise in sea levels.
Whether the individual reproduces or not, as prime reproductive years recede it becomes less relevant.
British Dictionary definitions for recede
recede
/rɪˈsiːd/
verb (intransitive)
1.
to withdraw from a point or limit; go back: the tide receded
2.
to become more distant: hopes of rescue receded
3.
to slope backwards: apes have receding foreheads
4.
(of a man's hair) to cease to grow at the temples and above the forehead
(of a man) to start to go bald in this way
5.
to decline in value or character
6.
(usually foll by from) to draw back or retreat, as from a promise
Word Origin
C15: from Latin recēdere to go back, from re- + cēdere to yield, cede
Word Origin and History for recede
v.
early 15c., from Middle French receder, from Latin recedere "to go back, fall back; withdraw, depart, retire," from re- "back" (see re-) + cedere "to go" (see cede). Related: Receded; receding.