recedo

Recedo, recedere, recessi, recessum is third conjugation, re- plus cedo. It takes a or ab with the ablative for what is being withdrawn from, or ex for coming out of a place. Its natural opposite is accedo, to approach.

The physical retreat is the base sense, and it is the military one: troops fall back, a coastline recedes, a wall stands back from the street. The figurative use is at least as common in this corpus, where recedere a fide or a veritate is to depart from the faith or the truth, an accusation rather than a movement. The noun recessus gives English recess, both the alcove and the adjournment, and both keep the idea of drawing back out of the way.