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US
/səbˈsaɪd/
]
[ UK /səbsˈaɪd/ ]
[ UK /səbsˈaɪd/ ]
VERB
-
sink down or precipitate
the mud subsides when the waters become calm -
descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
She subsided into the chair
He sank into bed -
sink to a lower level or form a depression
the valleys subside -
wear off or die down
The pain subsided
How To Use subside In A Sentence
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- When water levels subside and water stops flowing from the Main Pool, the carp disperse.
- But after prescribing a special bath of roots and leaves that I bathed in every morning, the swelling of my body subsided.
- The police are hoping that the violence will soon subside.
- Consumer cupidity continues to grow across the UK, but in Scotland the year-on-year growth rate subsided last month from 10.2% to 4.2%.
- I didn't know you had such a word as 'subside' in your vocabulary," derided David Nesbit. Grace Harlowe's Problem
- By Gerry Baldo 08/18/2009 Sensing the public outrage that hasn't subsided over what has been described as the ostentatious and luxurious lifestyles of President Arroyo and her entourage displayed during her New York has sent a memorandum to the Office of the Press Secretary, saying the New York Post report on the pricey dinner of President Gloria WN.com - Articles related to Developing Economies Like Egypt Can Lead the World Out of Recession
- And that feeling didn't subside. Times, Sunday Times
- For discussions allow passion to subside; and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator, is a step in the direction of peace. Albert Gobat - Nobel Lecture
- To use monadic means is difficult to correctly locate hidden water flowing subsided columns.