SUBSIDED Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

subsided

verb

past tense of subside

as in decreased

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually as the noise of the siren subsided, I was able to fall back to sleep

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Recent Examples of subsided Though impending rainstorms are likely to make rescue operations more difficult, officials say a previous threat from a lake that had formed on the border between Nepal and Tibet has substantially subsided. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Opinion polls gave the king firm backing to stay on for life, however, and the criticism subsided. — Terje Solsvik, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 Ama Brings Aura As Ama took the stage, the rain subsided; however, the feelings stayed. — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 26 Aug. 2026 After the smoke subsided, residents reported feeling effects from the stench of rotting meat and food from the warehouse interior, where it had been stored frozen on tall racks that were hundreds of feet across. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Washington and Tehran agreed in June to a 60-day ceasefire, allowing time to negotiate a more durable peace deal while active fighting subsided and the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened. — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026 The changes appeared shortly after astronauts entered space and largely subsided within days of their return to Earth, providing biochemical evidence that digestion slows in space. — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The heaviest fighting has subsided since a ceasefire in the more than two-year war took hold in October. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 The drama of last year’s Ole Miss team under Lane Kiffin has subsided. — Pj Green august 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2026

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Playing for Brian Daboll, Josh Allen slowly decreased his average time to throw and average air yards from 2018 to 2021.

— Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
In Little Village, the number of vendors selling tamales and elotes has decreased, said Jennifer Aguilar, executive director of the business district’s chamber of commerce.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of decreased

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Inside one, the individual is both multiplied and diminished.

— Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
The persuasiveness of these efforts, however, is diminished when a WRO is modified without transparency and despite readily accessible evidence indicating that conditions for the workers have not truly improved.

— Charity Ryerson, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of diminished

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Rincker, a German immigrant, was known for casting the bell that hung from the first Cook County Courthouse, which was felled by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Frightened that she may be plagued by the same mental illness that felled her mom, Gemma stubbornly refuses to believe anything is wrong.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of fell

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As farming ebbed, the water stored in those reservoirs helped the area's cities and suburbs become one of the nation's fastest growing urban areas.

— Alex Hager, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026
This is true if focusing on the standard price-to-earnings ratio, which has ebbed from 23 to 20 in the past 10 months.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of ebbed

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At 40 minutes, most of the material’s diffraction spots had vanished.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
On the same day Krebs published his post, the service mysteriously vanished from the dark web, which could make tracking down the people behind the hack more difficult.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of vanished

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Order could reshape federal wolf protections Gray wolves were first listed as endangered in 1967 after populations declined because of hunting and other human activities.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
The Federal Bureau of Investigation declined to provide further comment on the case to Fortune.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of declined

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Other brands have simply shrunk their bottles, the better to transport them in your pocket, around your neck, attached to your key chain or perhaps on a chatelaine around your waist.

— Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026
Washington — The unemployment gap between young high school graduates and their counterparts who obtained a bachelor’s degree or higher has shrunk steadily over the past few years in a sign of structural shifts happening in the US economy.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026

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