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

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  1. subside: Legal dictionary

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  1. subside: Encyclopedia

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  1. subside: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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