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subside

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. wear off or die down; "The pain subsided" [syn: lessen ] sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside" sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm" [syn: settle ] descend into or as if into some soft substance ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sb’s anger goes away/subsides/fades (= it stops ) ▪ I counted to ten and waited for my anger to go away. ▪ His anger slowly subsided. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB when ▪ Next morning the din from the dustbin lids ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees. 2 To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. 3 To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.

Usage examples of subside.

Vast as that field was, it could not encompass the whole fleet, but half of the lip of the gigantic cone soon disappeared, its component vessels subsiding into a sluggishly flowing stream of allotropic iron.

Larty stood to open the proceedings, waiting patiently until the photoflashes subsided.

It seemed to her that the entire hospital was disintegrating about them, although, since the bomb had been a small one, it was only the physiotherapy department which was torn apart, subsiding into piles of debris.

Her hazel eyes studied Planir with an intelligence that made it plain she was no mere gap-toothed matron subsiding into dumpy middle age and greying hair.

In a short time, his platelet counts were back to normal, his viral count had subsided, and there were no symptoms of any disease.

Master Prout was exceedingly fond of hearing himself talk, and a shrewd man withal, he had purposely applied to each gentleman the quality in which he was deficient, and spun out his speech with great deliberation, in order to give time for the passion of the opponents to subside.

Her boredom subsided in the early afternoon when they rolled into the town of Gram mantes, with its intact medieval city wall, its cobbled streets, quaintly gabled and timbered houses, and its ancient guild halls of rose-flecked Fabequais granite.

But even after his renomination the opposition to Lincoln within the ranks of the Union party did not subside.

Decius appeared to him the only person capable of restoring peace and discipline to an army whose tumultuous spirit did not immediately subside after the murder of Marinus.

All the secondary entrances have long since subsided, so if Scalene is in there, he has to go through us to go home.

Then he made his farewells, scooped me up off the stool onto which I had thankfully subsided, and we were off again, into the cool wind of the dying night.

Clumps of dried air-weed and red kelp were encrusted across the bitumened plates of the pontoon, shrivelled and burnt by the sun before they could reach the railing around the laboratory, while a dense refuse-filled mass of sargassum and spirogyra cushioned their impact as they reached the narrow jetty, oozing and subsiding like an immense soggy raft.

When the passions of the hour shall have subsided, and the past shall be reviewed with discrimination and justice, the question must arise in every reflecting mind, Why did such men as these expatriate themselves, and surrender all the advantages which they had won by a life of honorable effort in the land of their nativity?

The old controversies have passed away, or they have subsided, and have been covered up by one dark pall of somber hue, which increases with every passing year.

Government which exhibits no force, by removing want and giving employment, they have subsided into peaceful citizens, and have increased the wealth and power of our country.