subside
pronunciation
How to pronounce subside in British English:
UK [səbˈsaɪd]
How to pronounce subside in American English:
US [səbˈsaɪd]
-
- Verb:
- wear off or die down
- sink to a lower level or form a depression
- sink down or precipitate
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
Word Origin
- subside (v.)
- 1680s, of objects, "to sink to the bottom," from Latin subsidere "sit down, settle, sink, fall; remain; crouch down, squat," from sub "down" (see sub-) + sidere "to settle," related to sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Of liquid surfaces, "to sink to a lower level, be reduced" from 1706. Related: Subsided; subsiding.
Example
- 1. On day three , the pain began to subside .
- 2. I expect food inflation to subside by early spring .
- 3. For this viewer , the feeling has yet to subside .
- 4. Yet this time those pressures may not so easily subside .
- 5. Rather than subside , the protests are spreading and intensifying .