recede

• If it was used little or not at all, then it recede .
  如果对它使用很少或完全不使用，它就会退化。
• I would feel that the teacher and the pupils were receding from me .
  我觉得老师和同学都离开了我。
• He was receding obliquely with a curious hurrying gait .
  他歪着身子，古怪而急促地迈着步子，往后退去。
• The floodwater receded .
  洪水退了。
• The probability of invasion may seem to have receded for the moment .
  入侵的可能性好象暂时已经减少了。
• Desperately he struck out after the receding lights of the yacht .
  游艇的灯光渐去渐远，他拼命划水追赶。
• His hair had receded far enough to give him a high forehead .
  顶门上的头发已经脱了一大块，所以前额显得好高。
• The sense of duty dominates all else, and personal claims recede .
  责任感压倒一切，个人的打算也就退居其次了。
• For this reason the near point gradually recedes as one grows older .
  由于这个原因，随着人渐渐变老，近点便逐渐后退。
• If so, the subject of the solution of equations will recede into the background .
  如果这样，方程求解的课题就会失去重要性。