All 3 Uses of
subside
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- I had long since prepared my tincture; I purchased at once, from a firm of wholesale chemists, a large quantity of a particular salt which I knew, from my experiments, to be the last ingredient required; and late one accursed night, I compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke together in the glass, and when the ebullition had subsided, with a strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.†
p. 86..3
- Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness.†
p. 86..5 *
- These passed away, and left me faint; and then as in its turn the faintness subsided, I began to be aware of a change in the temper of my thoughts, a greater boldness, a contempt of danger, a solution of the bonds of obligation.†
p. 101..4
Definition:
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(subside as in: her anger subsided) become less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps going away entirely