0 present participle of subside
1 If a condition subsides, it becomes less strong or extreme:
2 If a building, land, or water subsides, it goes down to a lower level:
Subsiding reservoirs held water for short periods, allowing suspended particles to deposit themselves at the bottom of the reservoir.
We present a model of sedimentation in a subsiding fluvio-deltaic basin with steady sediment supply and unsteady base level.
On either side of the anticlines two synclines have developed forming subsiding sectors.
Far from subsiding into mystic gleams, ghosts were often more prosaically present than the living.
The rash typically appears when the elevated temperature has abated, and can last for only a few hours before subsiding (fig001sdr).
Self-funding residents, by paying a higher price for a care-home place, are in effect subsiding publicly-funded residents.
His firm response resulted in religious conflict subsiding remarkably quickly.
It is instructive to quantify the length, elevation, and time scales that characterize a subsiding fluvio-deltaic basin.
