different between receding vs returning

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d??

Verb

receding

1. present participle of recede

Adjective

receding (comparative more receding, superlative most receding)

1. going or moving back or further away from a previous position, gradually diminishing.
2. That recedes

   A receding hairline

Translations

Noun

receding (plural recedings)

1. The action of something that recedes; a recessed part.
   • 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk (page 20)

     The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]

   • 1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler (page 205)

     the great overflowings and recedings of the waters

Hyponyms

• fast-receding
• fastest-receding

Anagrams

• creeding

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t??n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t?n??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n??
• Hyphenation: re?turn?ing

Verb

returning

1. present participle of return

Noun

returning (plural returnings)

1. The act of one who returns; a coming back.
   • 2012, Michael Phillips, Land of the Brave and the Free (page 221)

     It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.