(sŭb-sīd′ĕns) [L. subsidere, to sink down] The gradual disappearance of symptoms or manifestations of a disease.18 Dec 2021
What things can subside?
Subside comes from the Latin prefix sub- (meaning "down") and the Latin verb sidere (meaning "to settle"). Subside is often used when a negative situation has improved significantly. For example, violence, disease, and unemployment can all subside.
What is the synonym and antonym of subside?
Some common synonyms of subside are abate, ebb, and wane. While all these words mean "to die down in force or intensity," subside implies the ceasing of turbulence or agitation.
Is decrease a synonym for subside?
In this page you can discover 40 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for subside, like: diminish, ebb, recede, sink, descend, lower, fall off, remit, dwindle, wane and fall.
The opposite of isostatic subsidence is known as isostatic rebound—the action of the crust returning (sometimes over periods of thousands of years) to a state of isostacy, such as after the melting of large ice sheets or the drying-up of large lakes after the last ice age.
What is an example of a subside?
Examples of subside in a Sentence The pain will subside in a couple of hours. After his anger had subsided, he was able to look at things rationally. We'll have to wait until the wind subsides. The road will remain closed until the water subsides.
What does subside mean in geography?
to sink or fall to a lower level. 3. ( Physical Geography) (of the surface of the earth, etc) to cave in; collapse. 4. ( of sediment, etc) to sink or descend to the bottom; settle.
What does being subdued mean?
1 : to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish. 2 : to bring under control especially by an exertion of the will : curb subdued my foolish fears.
What does symptoms subside mean?
1 : to become less strong or intense The pain subsided.