All 5 Uses of
subside
in
Misery, by Stephen King
- She helped him to sit up, there was a dull, thudding flare of pain in his pelvic area but it subsided, and then she leaned over, the side of her neck pressing against his shoulder like the neck of a horse.†
Chpt 1 *subsided = became less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps went away entirely
- Ian hissed fiercely, and Hezekiah subsided.†
Chpt 3
- He grimaced against the thick, grinding pain, and after a while it began to subside.†
Chpt 2
- Her rejection of what he had written would be easier to bear if he could blame it on the pain, but the truth was that the pain had finally begun to subside a little.†
Chpt 2
- Reluctantly, Hezekiah allowed the gosha to subside to the end of its leather string like a slowing pendulum.†
Chpt 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."