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Another word for subside

Verb

  1. To become or cause to become less active or intense

    2. See also:

    increase

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Another word for subside

Verb
    2. See also:

    wane

    fall

    ebb

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Sentence Examples

  • The flood of nations begins to subside into its normal channels.

  • When her sobs began to subside, he spoke in as calm a voice as he could muster.

  • At the point where the river Santa breaks through the Cordillera Negra that range begins to subside, while the Maritime Cordillera continues as one chain to and beyond the frontier of Ecuador.

  • From this time forward it began to subside, very gradually but unmistakably.

  • Toward midnight the voices began to subside, a cock crowed, the full moon began to show from behind the lime trees, a fresh white dewy mist began to rise, and stillness reigned over the village and the house.

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