Subsiding Synonyms and Antonyms

Wear off or die down
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lessening
Antonyms:
  1. rising
  2. growing
  3. increasing
Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ebbing
  2. waning
  3. sinking
  4. slackening
  5. falling
  6. settling
  7. moderating
  8. lowering
  9. withdrawing
  10. dwindling
  11. tapering
  12. remitting
  13. shrinking
  14. relapsing
  15. lapsing
  16. receding
  17. lulling
  18. lessening
  19. abating
  20. easing
  21. diminishing
  22. off
  23. descending
  24. decreasing
  25. downing
  26. calming
A gradual sinking to a lower level
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. settling
  2. subsidence

Subsiding Sentence Examples

  • The pain was subsiding as darkness surrounded her again.

  • Dusty straightened, the pain of his memories subsiding.

  • Enclosed seas extend deeply into the land and originate either by the breaking through of the ocean or by the overflowing of a subsiding area.

  • The contracted state, instead of rapidly subsiding after discontinuance of the stimulus, slowly and only partially wears off, the muscle remaining in a condition of physiological "contracture."

  • The deposit is greatest when the floods of the rainy season are subsiding.

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