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单词 subsiding
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subsidingn.

Brit. /səbˈsʌɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /səbˈsaɪdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: subside v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < subside v. + -ing suffix1. Compare subsidence n.
The action of subside v. (in various senses). Cf. subsidence n.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down
settlingc1440
sinking1440
declining1601
subsiding1607
subsidency1650
sedation1661
sinking-in1678
subsidence1754
sinkage1783
settlement1793
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > becoming less violent, vigorous, or severe
lissc1000
remissionc1425
abatement1433
swagingc1440
remittinga1475
slacking1542
remissness1551
subsiding1607
slackening1611
relaxation1614
relentment1628
rebatement1701
relaxing1734
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. iv. sig. G2v There's nothing, more, doth ouerwhelme the iudgment, And clouds the vnderstanding, then too much Setling, and fixing, and (as 't were) subsiding Vpon one obiect.
1672 R. Boyle New Exper. Flame & Air 13 in Tracts The subsiding of the Mercury.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 190 Strabo..attributes those great Floods and Inundations to the elevation and subsiding of the Moles terrestris.
1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 17 A regular alternate Elevation and subsiding, or an apparent Pulsation.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 151 Mixing a small quantity of alum with the water accelerates the subsiding of the starch.
1864 W. Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. (ed. 3) I. 525 Others begin to administer the quinine on the subsiding of the paroxysm and during the sweating stage.
1913 Mil. Engineer 5 500 With the subsiding of the jetties, the condition of the entrance channel deteriorated both in direction and depth.
1954 D. Eisenhower Let. 12 July in P. Boyle Churchill-Eisenhower Corr. (1990) 161 There has been a subsiding of Congressional emotion and its action now contemplated does not bear the bellicose note which was originally threatened.
2005 H. van der Wusten in C. R. Flint Geogr. of War & Peace iv. 78 This demographic feature has been mentioned as an explanatory factor in the subsiding of urban violence in the United States during the 1990s.

Compounds

General attributive: = subsidence n. Compounds a.
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1844 U.S. Patent 5,940 2/2 Our improvement of using a shallow subsiding-vat in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 1/3 Subsiding beds were provided so that the fluid portion of the river was alone supplied to the consumers.
1901 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 23 826 After transferring to a subsiding vessel and adding an equal volume of 90 per cent. alcohol it subsides perfectly to a heavy pulpy stratum.
1933 R. S. Weston in Twenty-Five Years Chem. Engin. Progr. (1968) (Amer. Inst. Chem. Engineers) xxiii. 327 The effluent from the subsiding basin is then passed through a special zeolite which exchanges sodium for the basic nitrogen in the sewage.
1975 Econ. Geogr. 51 161/1 The mill and subsiding tanks were old and worn, and the evaporators inefficient and only worthy of scrapping.
2007 M. C. Hill & C. R. Tiedeman Effective Groundwater Model Calibration i. 5 (caption) Experimental results from a subsiding tank, showing the kind of complexity characteristic of deltaic deposits in a subsiding basin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

subsidingadj.

Brit. /səbˈsʌɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /səbˈsaɪdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: subside v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < subside v. + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier subsiding n.
That subsides (in various senses of the verb).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [adjective] > sinking down
subsiding1646
sinking1748
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > becoming less violent, vigorous, or severe
softening1685
remissive1686
abating1727
subsiding1779
slacking1859
slowing1877
surceasing1881
slackening1886
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 68 The subsiding powder dryed, retaines some magneticall vertue. View more context for this quotation
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. ix. 443/1 Edulcorate the subsiding pouder by many affusions of fair Water.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 215 With Terror trembled Heav'ns subsiding Hill.
1779 Mirror No. 66 Specifying..the subsiding state of her affections towards them.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxii. 561 The class of widely-encircling reefs, which indicate a subsiding land.
1889 Ld. Lytton Let. to W. Ward 25 Sept. in Personal & Literary Lett. Ld. Lytton (1906) II. 390 The after effects of its subsiding eddies.
1955 J. Carmichael tr. N. Sukhanov Russ. Revol. vi. 140 Chkheidze was..saying something and waving his arms in the midst of the subsiding applause.
1994 Canad. Geographic Jan. 10/1 A less hospitable site for a young forest could scarcely be imagined..beside the cold, subsiding waters left by the retreating Wisconsin glacier.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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