recede vs fall back

recede and fall back both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recede	No	No	Yes	No
fall back	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, recede and fall back are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of recede include drop off, fall behind.

As verbs, fall back is a hyponym of recede; that is, fall back is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than recede:

Other hyponyms of recede include retreat, retrograde, back down, back off, back up.

recede (verb)	fall back (verb)
become faint or more distant	go back to bad behavior
retreat	retreat
pull back or move away or backward	hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
	fall backwards and down
	move back and away from
	have recourse to