Collocations for "subside"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "subside" in context.
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subside
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- the [pain, fighting, flood, rain, shock, fear, panic] subsided
- wait for the [pain] to subside
- wait until the [pain] subsides
- still has not subsided
- subsided enough to [work, walk, drive]
- her crying subsided to (just) sobs
- subsided to a drizzle
- the laughter [started, began] to subside
- the swelling has [hardly, barely] subsided
- it [eventually, gradually, entirely] subsided
- opened his mouth and then subsided
- subsided into [exhaustion, sleep]
- the [platform, island, building] is subsiding