Word.ws English Dictionary

subsided

subsided is the simple past and past participle of subside.

Meaning of subside

Verb

subside (third-person singular simple present subsides, present participle subsiding, simple past and past participle subsided)

  1. (intransitive) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
  2. (intransitive) To fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
    • An illuminating article in a recent issue of the Eastern Region's Civil Engineering News points out that where coal is worked over a reasonably large area, it is not only the whole of the strata above the workings, but also an area beyond which is liable to subside at varying rates after the coal...1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The subsidence problem”, in Trains Illustrated, page 651
  3. (intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil.
    • The sea subsides.
    Synonyms:
    abate
  4. (colloquial, intransitive) To cease talking.

Questions about subsided

What is subsided the simple past and past participle of?
Subsided is the simple past and past participle of subside.

Words near subsided in the dictionary

  1. subshrubs
  2. subsid
  3. subsidation
  4. subsidations
  5. subside
  6. subsided
  7. subsidence
  8. subsidence crater
  9. subsidence craters
  10. subsidences
  11. subsidencies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: subsided (page history and authors); subside (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “subsided.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/subsided. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.