recedere: decedere (general term): declinare (a little): rieflectere, degredi (with the will; PROP. and figuratively): aberrare (without knowledge or will; PROP. and figuratively): discedere ab aliqua re (general term, to depart from, leave, abandon): not to dare to recede a finger’s breadth from anything (proverbially), ab aliqua re, non licet transversum, ut aiunt, digitum discedere; ab aliqua re transversum unguem non oportet discedere.