subside
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪd
Audio (US) (file)
Verb
subside (third-person singular simple present subsides, present participle subsiding, simple past and past participle subsided)
- (intransitive) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
- (intransitive) To fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
- (intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.
- The sea subsides.
- The tumults of war will subside.
- The fever has subsided.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].
- (intransitive, colloquial) To cease talking.
Translations
to sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees
to fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink
to fall into a state of calm; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate
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See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syp.sid/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun
subside m (plural subsides)
- contribution, tax
- Le produit de taxes si mal réparties avait des limites, et les besoins des princes n'en avaient plus. Cependant ils ne voulaient ni convoquer les États pour en obtenir des subsides, ni provoquer la noblesse, en l'imposant, à réclamer la convocation de ces assemblées. (Tocqueville, Ancien Régime et Révolution, 1856)
- subsidy, pension, monetary help
- Max Jacob vit en effet pauvrement, sans cependant manquer de rien, à cause de certaines relations qu'il a, par exemple, Poiret, dont il est vrai qu'il reçoit quelques subsides. (Léautaud, Journal littéraire, 3, 1916)
Further reading
- “subside” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Old French
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (subside, supplement)
- subside on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Portuguese
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