subside (subsides, present participle subsiding; 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.
3. (intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.

   The sea subsides.

   The tumults of war will subside.

   The fever has subsided.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To cease talking.

• French: tomber
• German: einsinken
• Italian: sprofondare, abbassare, abbassarsi, scendere, discendere, ridursi, ridurre, calare
• Portuguese: esvaziar
• Russian: оседа́ть

• Italian: discendere, abbassare, calare
• Russian: опуска́ться

• French: calmer
• German: abklingen, nachlassen, abschwellen
• Italian: calmarsi, quietarsi, sedare
• Russian: успока́иваться
• Spanish: calmarse