Subside

Definition: Subside

Subside

Verb

1. Wear off or die down; "The pain subsided".

2. Sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside".

3. Sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm".

4. Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "subside" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Note: Subside \Sub*side"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Subsided; present participle verb or noun Subsiding.]. (references)

Synonyms: Subside

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Crosswords: Subside

French (abetment).

Would not subside (Thank God I Found You; performing artist: 98 Degrees)

I've got this feelin' that won't subside (Hungry Eyes; performing artist: Eric Carmen)

And now, as tears subside, ("My Way"; performing artist: Frank Sinatra)

Captured fears you'll face, can subside your tears (Don't You Forget It; performing artist: Glenn Lewis)

And when your fears subside (November Rain; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

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Books

• The wind will not subside : years in revolutionary China, 1964-1969 (reference)

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Their affection was always to subside into friendship

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Health

Even without treatment, the paroxysms subside in a few weeks. (references)

Symptoms may subside for weeks or months at a time and later recur. (references)

The spasms often subside briefly in response to a variety of stimuli. (references)

Economic History

Cyprus

The factors which led to inflation the previous year (namely, high agricultural product prices and the upsurge in oil prices) are expected to subside, to a certain extent, in the current year, leading to an inflation rate of around 2.0 percent in 2001, from its relatively high level of 4.2 percent in 2000. At the same time, conditions of full employment are expected to be maintained through 2001. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "subside": subside into. Additional references.

Albanian

shket (float, flow, ricochet, sail, skid), vithiset (fall in, slip), ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, decline, depress, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, pull down, reduce, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, throw, turn down, untuck), qetësohem (abate, blow out, calm down, cool down, cool off, die down, grow quiet, heal, rage, settle down, simmer down), largohem (backdown, backtrack, depart, evacuate, get along, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, make oneself scarce, move out, recede, retire, run away, run off, secede, take away, turn out, veer), fundosem (founder, sink, submerge), fundos (ruin, sink, swamp, weight down), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, throw down, tumble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏همد (deactivate), ‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏هبط (come down, decline, descend, dive, fall, set down, slump), ‏سكت (hold one's tongue, hush, keep mum, quiet, reduce, shut up, whist), ‏إستقر (be located, become steady, deposit, locate, lodge, move, plateau, set, settle, settle down, settle oneself, sit, spread out, stabilize, steady), ‏إستراح (breathe, ensconce oneself, hit the hay, lighten, recuperate, refresh, repose, rest, set at rest, stand at ease), ‏إبتعد (distance, feel one's way, give a wide berth, go away, keep away, pull away, recede, roll away, stand, sweep), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, thin, waste, weaken), ‏أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, lay, muffle, oppress, put out, quench, scotch, slake, smolder, smoulder, squelch, stifle, suppress, trail off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стихвам (drop, hush, lull, moderate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, sink, slacken, stand still, still), утаявам се (fix, gravitate, settle, settle down), утихвам (calm down, fall, quiet, spend, tranquilize), улягам (mellow, steady), отминавам (overlook, pass by, pass on, pass over), затъвам (bog, embed oneself, immerse, sink), преставам (cease, desist, fall out, finish, leave off, lift, quit, stop), потъвам (be engulfed, be lost, go down, go under, lock, plunge, sink, submerge, submerse), поддавам (give, sag, yield). (various references)

Chinese 

退落 , 消退 (Abate, Abated, Abating, Subsided, subsiding), 消 (consume, news, to disappear, to vanish). (various references)

Czech

sedat, uklidnit se (calm, calm down, compose oneself, cool down, quieten, simmer down, steady, still), ubývat (be on the wane, decline, decrease, dwindle, ebb, sink, wane, waste), přestávat, opadnout (fizzle out, go down), klesat (be on the decline, decline, descend, drop, fall, fall off, go down, lose height, sink, wane). (various references)

Danish

sammensynke (settle), aftage (abate). (various references)

Dutch

luwen (abate, weaken), bekoelen (abate, cool, cool down), bedaren (abate, appease, calm, calm down, quiet, soothe, still). (various references)

Esperanto

kvietiĝi (abate). (various references)

Farsi 

فرونشستن (Abate, Sag, Slake), فروکش کردن (Abate, Ebb, Lower), نشست کردن (Settle, Sink). (various references)

Finnish

tyyntyä (abate, become calm, calm down, calm oneself), talttua (abate, be tamed, go down), hiljetä (abate, become calm, become quiet), asettua (abate, calm, place oneself, settle down, take one's stand). (various references)

French

se calmer, s'affaisser. (various references)

German

sinken (come down, decline, descend, diminish, droop, drop, fall, founder, go down, sag, sink, slump, wane), nachlassen (abate, abatement, bequeath, decrease, deteriorate, die away, die down, dim, diminish, discount, drop, ease, ease off, ease up, fade, fail, failure, fall, flag, go, intermit, knock off, lessen, letup, loosen, moderate, rebate, reduce, relax, relaxation, relent, remit, respite, sink, slack off, slacken, slacken off, softening, tail off, take off, to abandon ship, to abate, to ease up, to intermit, to slacken, wane, waver, weaken, wear off). (various references)

Greek 

υποχωρώ (abate, back down, back out of, blench, bow, cave in, climb down, defer to, ebb, fall back, flinch, give in, give way to, recede, relent, retreat, subduce, yield). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשקוע (be immersed, bog, decay, decline, degenerate, sag, settle, sink, socket), לשכך (abate, assuage, lull, mollify, pacify, quell, soothe, still), לר�"ת (come down, descend, down, fall, go down, sag, settle). (various references)

Hungarian

lerakódik (to be deposited, to crust, to depose, to form a deposit), leülepedik (to precipitate). (various references)

Italian

sprofondare (collapse, give away), ritirare (abstract, collect, draw, draw back, evacuate, pick up, recede, retire, retract, seclude, shrink, take, take away, throw again, to withdraw, withdraw), placarsi (blow over, slacken), mitigarsi, lasciarsi cadere (plop), cessare (abate, break off, cease, cut out, discontinue, finish, go down, quit, stop), calmarsi (abate, moderate, quiet, settle down, simmer down, smooth, sober), calare (cast off, come down, drop, ebb, fall, go down, let down, let oneself down, lose weight, lower, recede, sink, slack off, slacken, slump, wane), adagiare (lay carefully, lay down), abbassarsi (decrease, demean oneself, dip, droop, drop, ebb, fall, lower, neap, prolapse, sag, sink, truckle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

冷める (to abate, to become cool, to subside, to wear off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しずまる (to abate, to be suppressed, to calm down, to die down, to quieten down, to subside), さめる (to abate, to awake, to become cool, to come down, to come to one's senses, to cool down, to dampen, to discolour, to fade, to get sober, to subside, to wake, to wake up, to wear off). (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), traih (abate, abatement, decrement, diminish, efflux, flow away, flow out, go down, go off, low water, make, make of ebb, ooze away, sink, subsidence). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubsidesay.(various references)

Portuguese

voltar para trás (recede, turn back), retroceder (fall back, flinch, recede, regress, retreat, retrograde, retrogress, revert, run back, set back, shrink), ficar para trás (drop behind, lag, recede), diminuir em valor (recede), baixar (come down, down, draw down, droop, drop, ebb, fall, get down, go down, issue, let down, let up, lower, pull down, recede, reduce, sink, take down, tone down, turn down), afastar-se da vista (recede). (various references)

Romanian

slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), se tasa (settle), se prãbuşi (come down with a run, crash, crumble, curl up, fall, fall drop through, fall in, fall to the ground, founder, go to pieces, ruin, wreck), se potoli (abate, burn down, calm, dampen, die away, fall, flatten, lull, quiet, remit, settle, smooth down, soften), se lãsa (close, fall, forswear, founder, lay aside), scufunda (dip, dive, drown, engulf, founder, run down, send to the bottom, sink, soak, submerge, swamp, whelm), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subtract, take off, wane), retrage (recall, recede, remove, retire, retract, withdraw), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, cut off, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, taboo, withhold), ogoi (abate, allay, assuage, hush, pacify, soothe), dezumfla (collapse, deflate, let down), descreşte (abate, Bate, decline, decrease, dewindle, diminish, fall, fall off, flag, grow, lessen, shorten, sink, wane), adânci (aggravate, Bury, corrode, deepen, delve, excavate, fathom, further, gouge, hole, sound, submerge), aşeza (arrange, bed, beset, bestow, build, collocate, dispose, encase, establish, fall, fix, impose, lay, lay down, place, position, put, put down, put on, repose, seat, set, settle, situate, stack, stand, stick, Stow). (various references)

Russian 

схлынуть (rush by), стихнуть (calm down, fall), успокаиваться (calm down, compose oneself, ease off, ease up, quiet, quiet down, quieten, simmer down, tranquilize), убыть (desrease), спасть (fall down), спадать (come down, sink), оседать (settle, sink), падать (come down, drop, fall, fall down, fallen, fell, overturn, plummeted, sag, sagged, sink, tumble). (various references)

Scottish

traogh (drain, ebb, exhaust), laigh (lie, lie down, recline), ìslich (become low, bring low, humble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sleći se (die down), opasti (ebb, fall off, fall out, go down, slump). (various references)

Spanish

calmarse (abate, blow over, calm down, cool down, die down, drop, ease, quieten, settle down, simmer down, sober down), sosegarse (abate, calm down, die down, quiet). (various references)

Swedish

sjunka undan. (various references)

Turkish

sakinleşmek (become tranquilized, calm down, compose oneself, cool down, hush, let one's hair down, let up, quiet, quiet down, quieten, resettle, simmer down, slacken, smooth, smooth down, still), yatışmak (calm down, come off the boil, cool, cool down, quiet, quiet down, resettle, settle, simmer down, still), yığılmak (agglomerate, bank up, conglomerate, draw up, drift, flop, pour, roll up, slump down, swarm), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), dibe çökmek (sample out, sink to the bottom), alçalmak (abase oneself, bastardize, derogate, descend, dip, drop, ebb, get off, go down, set, sink, stoop), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat), çökelmek (deposit, precipitate, sample out, settle). (various references)

Turkmen 

saяpallamak (decrease, hall), rahatlanmak (become quiet, calm down), ьnjalmak (become quiet, calm down). (various references)

Ukrainian

стихати (die down, die off, drop, flatten, moderate, slake), падати (come down, crash, drop, fall, pitch). (various references)

adquiescamus, adquiescas, adquiesce, adquiescens, adquiescent, adquiescentes, adquiescentibus, adquiescere, adquiesceret, adquiesces, adquiescet, adquiescit, adquiescunt, adquieverint, adquieverunt, adquievi, adquievisti, adquievit, adquievitque, concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, corruat, corruatis, corruens, corruent, corruentem, corruentes, corruentibus, corruere, corruerint, corruerunt, corrues, corruet, corruetis, corrui, corruissent, corruisti, corruit, corruitque, corruunt, defecerat, defecerint, defecerit, defeceritis, defecerunt, defeci, defecimus, defecisset, defecisti, defecit, defecitque, defecto, deficere, deficerent, deficeret, deficiam, deficiamus, deficiant, deficias, deficiat, deficiatis, deficiebant, deficiebat, deficiemus, deficiendo, deficiens, deficient, deficiente, deficientem, deficientes, deficientibus, deficiet, deficimus, deficit, deficiunt, reside, residebant, residens, resident, residentes, residentibus, residere, subsessor, subsidere, subsido. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "subside": subsided, subsidence, subsidences, subsider, subsiders, subsides. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Subside" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sabido, Sarbskie, sobside, soubise, subsi, subsid, subsiden, subsidie, subsidiy, subsite, subsize, suiside, suside. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: busied, busies, bussed, disuse, issued.

-2 letters: bides, bises, bused, buses, issue, sides.

-3 letters: beds, bedu, bide, bids, bise, buds, buss, debs, dibs, dies, diss, dubs, dues, ides, seis, sibs, side, subs, suds, sued, sues, used, uses.

-4 letters: bed, bid, bis, bud, bus, deb, dib, die, dis, dub, due, dui, eds, ess, ids, sei, sib.

+1 letter: disabuse, disburse, subedits, subideas, subsided, subsider, subsides.

+2 letters: burnsides, curbsides, debruises, disabused, disabuses, disbursed, disburser, disburses, rudesbies, sideburns, suberised, subfields, suboxides, subsiders, subsidies, subsidise, subsidize, subsisted, subsoiled.

+3 letters: birdhouses, bisulfides, busybodies, disburdens, disbursers, dissoluble, disturbers, subdivides, subeditors, subindexes, subindices, subperiods, subscribed, subsidence, subsidised, subsidises, subsidized, subsidizer, subsidizes, turbidness.

+4 letters: absurdities, discussable, discussible, disembogues, distributes, dubiousness, husbandries, solubilised, subacidness, subdecision, subdialects, subdividers, subheadings, sublicensed, submediants, subsidences, subsidizers, substituted.