recede from a promise
His hair is beginning to recede from his forehead.
The company decided to recede from a bargain.
School and home seemed to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane.
When wind falls on the last leaf, love can only recede from memory.
It will recede from moorings, stranding boats in the mud, or reveal sandbars where none are on the maps.
An additional 32 people are missing, and officials are trying to verify scores more reported deaths as the floodwaters gradually recede from the most badly affected areas.
But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast.
