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Definition: SUBSIDED |
SUBSIDEDImperative & past participle1. Of Subside |
Date "SUBSIDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: SUBSIDED |
| English words defined with "SUBSIDED": Secondary amputation, sink, subside. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SUBSIDED": LOUIS XVIII. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SUBSIDED": subside. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Observing at Station Rusty following 1964 Alaska earthquake Station elevation subsided at least 12' during quake Party off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Interior of a farmhouse near Ridgeley, Tennessee, after the 1937 flood waters had subsided. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tennessee farmhouse near Ridgeley after flood had subsided. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Barn of client after the Connecticut River had subsided, Hatfield, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tobacco lands after the Connecticut River had subsided near Hatfield, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | After the Connecticut River had subsided near Hatfield, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | After a brief space, the convulsion grew almost imperceptible, and finally subsided into the depths of his nature. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patients with acute cholecystitis, acute gallstone pancreatitis that has subsided, prior surgery in the upper abdomen, and symptomatic gallstones in the second trimester of pregnancy may be candidates for laparoscopic cholecystectomy, providing the operating surgeon is experienced in treating patients with complex laparoscopic cholecystectomy problems. (references) | |
Business | Gradually, Red Guard and other radical activity subsided, and the Chinese political situation stabilized along complex factional lines. (references) | |
As a result of the downturn in construction activity, Saudi Arabia's imports of air-conditioning equipment and chillers subsided in recent years. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | The situation in the southern province of Guangdong improved somewhat during the year, after a crackdown on house churches there in early 2000. Repression of underground Catholics in the southeastern province of Fujian, a major concern in 2000, subsided over the course of the year. (references) |
Guatemala | The legal point soon became moot as violence subsided and the army was withdrawn from the city on August 5. The Constitution provides for freedom of association, and it was generally respected in practice; however, there were credible allegations that the Government interfered with political associations. (references) | |
Economic History | Benin | Inflation has subsided over the past several years. (references) |
Human Rights | Chad | During the year, as the rebellion subsided, forced conscription generally was confined to the northern regions. (references) |
Minorities | Zimbabwe | Racial tensions have subsided since independence and remain low despite the Government's ongoing attempts to blame whites for the country's economic and political problems. (references) |
Political Economy | Comoros | The Anjouan secession crisis subsided after the August 2000 signing of the "Fomboni Declaration of National Unity" by Azali and separatist leader Lieutenant Colonel Said Abeid. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In Haiti, the dictators are gone, democracy has a new day, and the flow of desperate refugees to our shores has subsided. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SUBSIDED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 59.46% of the time. "SUBSIDED" is used about 259 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 59.46% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 39% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 259 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
subsided | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SUBSIDED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 消退 (Abate, Abated, Abating, subside, subsiding). (various references) | ||||
German | sank. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ubsidedsay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"SUBSIDED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sobside, subsid, subsiden, subsite, subsize, subsized, suside. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SUBSIDED" (pronounced subsī"dud) |
| 5 | -s ī" d u d | coincided, decided, lopsided, sided, undecided. |
| 4 | -ī" d u d | abided, chided, collided, confided, derided, divided, glided, guided, misguided, presided, prided, provided, resided, subdivided, undivided. |
| 3 | -d u d | abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, clouded, coded, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, pretended, proceeded, prodded, propounded, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-i-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: buddies, disbuds, disused, subside. | |
-2 letters: busied, busies, bussed, disbud, dissed, disuse, issued, sudsed. | |
-3 letters: bided, bides, bises, bused, buses, dudes, issue, sided, sides, sudds. | |
-4 letters: beds, bedu, bide, bids, bise, buds, buss, debs, dibs, died, dies, diss, dubs, dude, duds, dues, ides, seis, sibs, side, subs, sudd, suds, sued, sues, used, uses. | |
-5 letters: bed, bid. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-i-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: disabused, disbursed. | |
+2 letters: disburdens, subdivides, subsidised, subsidized. | |
+3 letters: subdividers. | |
+4 letters: unsubsidized. | |
+5 letters: disubstituted, nonsubsidized, subdistricted. | |
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