All 5 Uses of
subside
in
The House of Mirth
- Lily tossed aside the note and subsided on her pillows with a sigh.†
Chpt 1.4subsided = became less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps went away entirely
- Miss Stepney, when her first fright had subsided, began to feel the superiority that greater breadth of mind confers.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- The servants came first, then a few charitable institutions, then several remoter Melsons and Stepneys, who stirred consciously as their names rang out, and then subsided into a state of impassiveness befitting the solemnity of the occasion.†
Chpt 2.4
- That Lily was a star fallen from that sky did not, after the first stir of curiosity had subsided, materially add to their interest in her.†
Chpt 2.10
- On the whole he was surprised; for though he had perceived that the situation contained all the elements of an explosion, he had often enough, in the range of his personal experience, seen just such combinations subside into harmlessness.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(subside as in: her anger subsided) become less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps going away entirely
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(2)
(subside as in: the ground subsided) sink or settle to a lower level
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In classic literature, subside may be used as a synonym for sit as in "She subsided into the chair."