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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a gradual sinking to a lower level [syn: settling, subsiding, subsidence]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Subside Sub*side", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Subsided; p. pr. & vb. n. Subsiding.] [L. subsidere; sub under, below + sidere to sit down, to settle; akin to sedere to sit, E. sit. See Sit.] 1. To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees. 2. To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. ``Heaven's subsiding hill.'' --Dryden. 3. To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided. ``In cases of danger, pride and envy naturally subside.'' --C. Middleton. Syn: See Abate.

Moby Thesaurus

at rest, calm, cloistered, collapsing, coming apart, contractive, cool, cracking, crumbling, decadent, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, decurrent, degenerate, deliquescent, descendant, descending, deteriorating, diminishing, diminuendo, disintegrating, down, down-reaching, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, draining, drooping, dropping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, even-tenored, fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, halcyon, hushed, impassive, isolated, languishing, lessening, marcescent, moldering, on the descendant, on the downgrade, on the wane, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, pining, placid, plummeting, plunging, quiescent, quiet, reductive, regressive, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retrograde, retrogressive, sagging, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, setting, sheltered, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, smooth, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, submerging, tabetic, tottering, tranquil, tumbledown, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening