receding water
Water pulling back
Receding water is water that withdraws or retreats from its previous level or position.
The phrase typically describes tides going out, floodwaters subsiding, or shorelines gradually moving back: The receding water revealed debris left by the storm.
It often signals either a return to normal conditions or, more ominously, the precursor to a tsunami.
- ebbGradual retreat seaward
- tideOcean's cyclical swell
- shorelineLand-water boundary
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- drainChannel for wastewater
tide going out · low tide · pulling back · exposed · mudflat · sandbar · tidal pool · puddle · evaporate · drought · riverbed · stranded · shrinking · drying · drying up · waterline · seaweed · shells
receding waterrising water
Increasing water level
flood · flooding · rising tide · tidal surge · storm surge
receding waterfloodwater
Excess from swollen rivers
inundation · deluge · overflow · overflowing · standing water
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