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subsiding

/suhb-sahyd/US // səbˈsaɪd //UK // (səbˈsaɪd) //

下沉,沉降,沉降的,下沉的

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sub·sid·ed, sub·sid·ing.

    • : to sink to a low or lower level.
    • : to become quiet, less active, or less violent; abate: The laughter subsided.
    • : to sink or fall to the bottom; settle; precipitate: to cause coffee grounds to subside.

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Examples

  • As the influenza epidemic subsided across the country in early 1919, so too did the intense public interest in a vaccine.

  • The tensions have subsided somewhat as Democrats come to grips with their tenuous majority.

  • That’s something doctors initially believed might be a possibility and they became visible on subsequent scans and tests when swelling in Brees’s chest subsided.

  • Until state lawmakers and the public take action, there’s no reason to think Wisconsin’s coronavirus cases and deaths will subside.

  • While many of us will go back to the familiar old ways and places after the threat of infection subsides, these new offerings won’t vanish completely when the pandemic does.

  • Bill feels a sensation like “subsiding into a pile of bones.”

  • Has the subsiding of the 1990s crime wave changed - not only the quantity of gun incidents - but also the character?

  • One factor is the subsiding of the crack-cocaine epidemic that hit Washington hard in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

  • A biggish sea running, subsiding as the day went on—and my mind grew calmer with the waves.

  • On the 4th day, the inflammation was evidently subsiding, and on the 6th it was scarcely perceptible.

  • I said, I thought the heat a little, and but a little, subsiding.

  • Val sat up very straight, and made her a sign, subsiding quickly upon a look from Mrs. Gano.

  • There was a game of hide-and-seek on the lawn, and when the shrieks and laughter were subsiding, some one began to sing within.