Term: receding: a slow or gradual disappearance
Candidate hypernym: event: something that happens at a given place and time → 1
Candidate hypernym: cantaloupe: a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh → 0
Candidate hypernym: mumblety-peg: a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground → 0
Candidate hypernym: zona pellucida: thick membrane around the mammalian ovum; can be penetrated by one sperm in the fertilization process; usually remains around the fertilized egg until it is implanted in the wall of the uterus → 0
Candidate hypernym: linear unit: a unit of measurement of length → 0
Candidate hypernym: xiphiidae: comprising the common swordfishes → 0
Candidate hypernym: petty officer: a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army → 0
Candidate hypernym: fun: verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) → 0
Candidate hypernym: carful: the quantity that a car will hold → 0
Candidate hypernym: crowd: an informal body of friends → 0
Candidate hypernym: acanthocephalan: any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines → 0