regress vs recede

regress is a noun but recede is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
regress	Yes	No	Yes	No
recede	No	No	Yes	No

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

Other hyponyms of regress include drop off, fall back, fall behind.

regress (noun)	recede (noun)
returning to a former state
the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence

regress (verb)	recede (verb)
go back to bad behavior	become faint or more distant
get worse or fall back to a previous condition	retreat
go back to a previous state	pull back or move away or backward
go back to a statistical means