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subside
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subside as in:  her anger subsided

I'm hoping aspirin will make the pain subside.
subside = become less severe
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  • I couldn't think clearly until the pain subsided.
    subsided = became less severe
  • We had to wait for the noise to subside before we continue our conversation.
    subside = become less intense
  • Let's talk tomorrow when anger has subsided and we can think more clearly.
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  • The swelling subsided, but it's still painful.
    subsided = became less severe
  • After a while, the squall began to subside and the thunderclouds scudded away from the center of town.  (source)
    subside = become less intense
  • Kai's voice over the tumult in her ears made her realize that the pain was subsiding.†  (source)
    subsiding = becoming less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps going away entirely
  • Then leaf subsides to leaf.  (source)
    subsides = becomes less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps goes away entirely
  • After a length of time which he made no attempt to judge, he sensed a slight subsidence in their speed and some while later became aware that they were gradually gliding to a gentle halt.†  (source)
  • He huffed at the dirt, then flopped on his belly and subsided.  (source)
    subsided = became less intense
  • Montag did not look back at his wife as he went trembling along the hall to the kitchen, where he stood a long time watching the rain hit the windows before he came back down the hall in the gray light, waiting for the tremble to subside.  (source)
    subside = go away
  • Their fear subsiding, they complied.†  (source)
    subsiding = becoming less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps going away entirely
  • He waits until his breathing subsides, then slowly rolls off the bed, trying not to wake his wife.  (source)
    subsides = becomes less intense
  • Then he went West, and there was a gradual subsidence of whatever personal attraction had existed.†  (source)
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subside as in:  the ground subsided

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  • The flood waters have subsided.
    subsided = settled to a lower level
  • He probably surmised that if he bided his time until August, the Teklanika would subside enough to be crossed.  (source)
    subside = settle to a lower level
  • The deeper the tunnel, the less chance of subsidence on the surface.  (source)
    subsidence = the gradual sinking or settling of land to a lower level
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  • When the wall of seawater subsided, the three Romans were in the bay, spluttering and frantically trying to stay afloat in their armor.  (source)
    subsided = settled to a lower level
  • All my efforts subside like froth into the one desire to be able just to stay lying there.  (source)
    subside = settle
  • Subsiding onto his seat Mr. Blore thought to himself: "He's nearer the day of judgment than I am!"  (source)
    Subsiding = settling
  • When this bar is gradually increased by storms, tides, or currents, or there is a subsidence of the waters, so that it reaches to the surface, that which was at first but an inclination in the shore in which a thought was harbored becomes an individual lake, cut off from the ocean, wherein the thought secures its own conditions—changes, perhaps, from salt to fresh, becomes a sweet sea, dead sea, or a marsh.  (source)
    subsidence = settling to a lower level
  • Probably there were subsidences of the outer crust, when a portion of the sedimentary deposits was carried down sudden openings.  (source)
  • They'd made it to the roof, waiting there with dozens of other people until the water subsided.  (source)
    subsided = settled to a lower level
  • After a minute, the roiling water subsided, and Rhunon withdrew the now pearl-gray sword.  (source)
  • All about the pool into which the water subsided grew various plants, that seemed to require a plentiful supply of moisture for the nourishment of gigantic leaves, and in some instances, flowers gorgeously magnificent.  (source)
  • The building is subsiding because the soil is shrinking from the drought.†
    subsiding = sinking or settling to a lower level
  • The mud subsides when the waters become calm.†
    subsides = sinks or settles to a lower level
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