You can think of recede as a slow pulling back. Something that was near you moves away, step by step, and you stay where you are and watch it get smaller or weaker. Nothing snaps or vanishes; the line where it used to be simply moves back.
From the word’s history
The evidence packet traces recede to Latin recedere, 'to withdraw, to go back', from re- ('back') plus cedere ('to go'), reaching English through Middle French receder and Middle English receden. The same cedere shows up in proceed and precede.
資料裡的字源說 recede 來自拉丁文 recedere「退回去」，由 re-（往回）加 cedere（走）組成，經中古法文 receder 和中古英文 receden 進入英文。字面就是「往回走」，和今天所有的用法都對得上。同一個 cedere 也在 proceed（往前走）和 precede（走在前面）裡面。
Wiktionary, 'recede' etymology, supplied verbatim in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:590855528)
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