Usually means: Decrease, diminish in intensity, settle.
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  1. subside: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subside: Merriam-Webster
  3. subside: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subside: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subside: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subside: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subside, subside: Wordnik
  8. subside: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. subside: Wiktionary
  10. subside: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subside: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subside: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subside: Dictionary.com
  14. subside: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. subside: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Subside: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. subside: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. subside: Rhymezone
  19. subside: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. subside: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. subside: FreeDictionary.org
  22. subside: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. subside: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. subside: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subside: Legal dictionary

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  1. subside: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. subside: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. subside: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subside)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To cease talking.

Similar:
lessen, settle, sink, lapse, lower, fall, unswell, delapse, tail away, die down, more...

Opposite:
rise, increase, grow, escalate

Types:
dissipate, evaporate, disappear, fade, fizzle, fade away, vanish, more...

Phrases:
subside into, opposite of subside, to lessen or subside, not subside, more...

Adjectives:
precipitate, little, last, long, first, redness, present, general, rash, larynx, active

Colors:
    muted blue,     dusty rose,     faded green,     light taupe,     quiet olive, more...


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Similar:
lessen, settle, sink, lapse, lower, fall, unswell, delapse, tail away, die down, more...

Opposite:
rise, increase, grow, escalate

Types:
dissipate, evaporate, disappear, fade, fizzle, fade away, vanish, more...

Phrases:
subside into, opposite of subside, to lessen or subside, not subside, more...

Adjectives:
precipitate, little, last, long, first, redness, present, general, rash, larynx, active

Colors:
    muted blue,     dusty rose,     faded green,     light taupe,     quiet olive, more...



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