All 4 Uses of
subside
in
The Idiot
- The officer, tearing himself from the prince's grasp, pushed him so violently backwards that he staggered a few steps and then subsided into a chair.†
Chpt 3.2
- She could go no farther, and subsided on to a couch quite exhausted; too feeble to remember so much as to ask the prince to take a seat.†
Chpt 3.9
- She frowned, and subsided on to the sofa with a tired air, and without taking the trouble to remove her hat.†
Chpt 4.1
- Here Colia handed him a chair, and he subsided into it, breathless with rage.†
Chpt 4.2 *
Definition:
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(subside as in: her anger subsided) become less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps going away entirely