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# subside

«subside» in Mova's school dictionary: **to become weaker, calmer or less strong: the storm…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (subside, subsides, subsided, subsiding); noun subsidence

### meaning for a pupil

1) To subside is to become weaker, calmer or less strong: the storm subsided, the pain subsided. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#m1)

2) When water subsides, it goes down to a lower level: the flood waters subsided. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#m2)

3) When land or a building subsides, it sinks lower into the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Formal word in exam and news language; in science lessons, floods subside, wind subsides, a fever subsides. In stories it shows that danger or strong feeling is passing. Plain words: die down, calm down, go down, sink.

### examples

- After an hour, the storm began to subside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#x1)
- The flood waters subsided and people went home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#x2)
- Her fever subsided after she took the medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#x3)
- Wait until the pain subsides before you walk on your ankle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#x4)
- The laughter subsided when the teacher came in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#x5)
- The old house had subsided, so the doors no longer shut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#x6)
- The wind subsided, and the boat sailed on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#x7)
- No sooner had he said this to himself than the storm began to subside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/#x8)

### note

Pronounced sub-SIDE. Regular verb: subsided. Noun for land sinking is «subsidence». Do not mix up with «subsidise» (to give money to help). In formal maths: «the water level subsided by 30 cm» means it went down 30 cm, so subtract.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «subside» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subside/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.