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verb

Subside v. i. (past & past part. subsided; pres. part. subsiding)

To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.

To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. "Heaven's subsiding hill."

To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided. "In cases of danger, pride and envy naturally subside."

Synonyms: See Abate.

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Etymology of 'Subside'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Subside" Quotes from Famous Books

... and festivity begins in the fall, after the birds have left us and the holiday spirit of nature has commenced to subside. How absorbing the pastime of the sportsman who goes to the woods in the still October morning in quest of him! You step lightly across the threshold of the forest, and sit down upon the first log or rock to await the signals. It is so ...

— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs

... gradually to subside at ten o'clock at night, and a slow steady rain came, which soon calmed the sea to a great extent. As soon as it was safe to go above deck, it was found that more than a hundred horses had been lost overboard, ...

— The Adventures of a Boy Reporter • Harry Steele Morrison

... be addressed; but hearing no sound, and becoming alive to the strangeness of his situation, he meditated whether it would not be well to subside out of sight, even as he had come—through the floor. An intention which the eremite must have anticipated; for of a sudden, something was slid over the opening; and the apparition seating itself thereupon, the twain ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

... the world-ghost, the time-spirit, come None knows where from, The viewless draughty tide And wash of being. I hear it yaw and glide, And then subside, ...

— Behind the Arras - A Book of the Unseen • Bliss Carman

... taken away all the fire-fighting equipment. It was not long before the whole of Moscow was ablaze. The Emperor left the Kremlin and went to the chteau of Peterskoe. He did not return until three days later, when the fire was beginning to subside for lack of fuel. I shall not go into any details about the fire itself, as there are several eye-witness accounts, but later I shall examine the ...

— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot

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