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• n  a gradual sinking to a lower level
• v  wear off or die down
• v  sink to a lower level or form a depression
• v  sink down or precipitate
• v  descend into or as if into some soft substance or place

• And as the revelations continue, the public's mood of bitter outrage shows no signs of subsiding.
• While the fires in the working-class immigrant suburbs seemed to be subsiding last week, the government's ineffectual response to the violence has stirred nearly as much public .
• A graduate in Mongolian nationalism, she argues that hard-line nationalism's allure is subsiding as more young Mongolians are exposed to globalization or study abroad.

• settling
• subsidence
• subside
• lessen
• settle
• sink

News & Articles

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• Storms pelt Midwest with rain, winds, hail
  CHICAGO (AP) — A massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds began rolling through the Midwest Wednesday evening and could affect more than one in five Americans from Iowa to Maryland before subsiding.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Storms batter Midwest with rain, winds, hail
  CHICAGO – A massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds began rolling through the Midwest Wednesday evening and could affect more than one in five Americans from Iowa to Maryland before subsiding.
  June 13, 2013 - Fox News
• Massive line of storms pelts Midwest with rain, winds, hail
  A massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds began rolling through the Midwest on Wednesday evening and could affect more than one in five Americans from Iowa to Maryland before subsiding.
  June 13, 2013 - Denver Post

Quotes

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• Condoleezza Rice in International Herald Tribune
  But several correspondents have also pointed out that subsiding fossil-fuel burning generators would send the wrong message in the light of the environmental considerations. We have an opportunity over the decade ahead to shift the structure of our... Trevor Manuel http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Manuel&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHzgRJQ0OMdCDcLvc3GHF65I5vi4g AllAfrica.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://allafrica.com/stories/200802200662.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHzZo0DEaylKqSogLYaJGQxe3vArw Feb 20, 2008 95959 127475 subsiding The violence in Darfur is not subsiding, it is getting worse," Rice told the gathering. "If the notion of our responsibility to protect the weakest and most powerless among us is ever to be more than an empty promise, then we must take...
• Theo Epstein in Wicked Local (blog)
  He's making progress every day in the sense that his symptoms are subsiding slowly but surely,said Epstein. "That's a really important element because he can't start baseball activities until the symptoms are much less than when we last...