RECEDE

RECE’DE, v. i. [L. recedo; re and cedo.]
1.    To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

    Like the hollow roar - Of tides receeding from th’ insulted shore. Dryden.
    All bodies moved circularly, endeavor to recede from the center. Bently.
2.    To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist from; to relinquish what has been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand; to recede from terms or propositions.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster 1828, Vol. II., page 51.

RECE’DE, v. t. [ re and cede.]
    To cede back; to grant or yield to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster 1828, Vol. II., page 51.

Ire-cede2 (ri’sëd’) vt. –ced’|ed, –ced’ing to cede back
Webster’s New World Dictionary, 3rd College Ed. (1988), page 1120.