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- verb Present participle of
subside .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gradual sinking to a lower level
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Examples
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"Girls 'heads always do ache," answered Tom, subsiding from a roar into a chuckle.
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Finally, if we are going to play the blame game, let’s be honest with the earliest entries: “Early 1800s — French build levees, which cause the delta mud on the dry side of the levee to begin subsiding below sea levels.”
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She grinned, exhilarated, and turned to her father, her grin subsiding.
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Bowman noticed the calm Yeti faces and slowly sat back, his intense expression subsiding into sullen neutrality.
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DUNCAN: It looks like it's going to be kind of subsiding in September, but October is going to be wet.
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Resource stocks, particularly, saw the benefit of "subsiding" concerns about European debt, said Commsec economist Savanth Sebastian.
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Resource stocks, particularly, saw the benefit of "subsiding" concerns about European debt, said Commsec economist Savanth Sebastian.
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The river is subsiding, which is taking the pressure off that wall, but we don't know what's going to happen. "
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The river is subsiding, which is taking the pressure off that wall, but we don't know what's going to happen. "
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FedEx attributed recent global economic weakness to factors such as rising oil prices, bad weather and the Japan earthquake and nuclear disaster—constraints that the company said appear to be subsiding.
FedEx Expects Upswing In Cargo Valerie Bauerlein 2011
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