verb [V]
1 to become calmer or quieter:
She waited nervously for his anger to subside. * When the rain had subsided we continued our walk. * I took an aspirin and the pain gradually subsided. * He waited until the laughter had subsided before continuing his story.
2 (of water) to go back to a normal level:
The flood waters gradually subsided.
3 (of land or a building) to sink to a lower level; to sink lower into the ground:
Weak foundations caused the house to subside.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for subside is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does subside appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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