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/səbsˈaɪdɪŋ/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Subsiding" Quotes from Famous Books

... really the case? does the equality of social conditions habitually and permanently lead men to revolution? does that state of society contain some perturbing principle which prevents the community from ever subsiding into calm, and disposes the citizens to alter incessantly their laws, their principles, and their manners? I do not believe it; and as the subject is important, I beg for the reader's close attention. Almost all the revolutions which have changed ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... of Father Damien in verse would join it one of these days. There were ten or twelve little volumes already. Strolling in at dusk, Sandra would open the books and her eyes would brighten (but not at the print), and subsiding into the arm-chair she would suck back again the soul of the moment; or, for sometimes she was restless, would pull out book after book and swing across the whole space of her life like an acrobat ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... farther and farther out from the shore; but he caught hardly any fish. He was in no hurry to go home, for Ezekiel was in his tantrums, and his mother had gone to Rockport to spend two or three days. The wind, instead of subsiding as the day advanced, increased in force. The sea was heavy out in the bay, and it was utterly impossible to beat the old boat up to windward, for she made ...

— Little Bobtail - or The Wreck of the Penobscot. • Oliver Optic

... making its ramshackle planks rattle and throw up a cloud of dust from between the vibrating seams. Out of this cloud he emerged like a gray spectre, body bent, head low, gaze fixed and intense, leaving a pandemonium of dust and subsiding echoes behind him. ...

— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... In graceful act he stands, His arm extended with the slackened bow: Light flows his easy robe, and fair displays A manly, softened form. The bloom of gods Seems youthful o'er the bearded cheek to wave; His features yet heroic ardor warms; And, sweet subsiding to a native smile, Mixed with the joy elating conquest gives, A scattered frown ...

— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson

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