subside

Other forms of subside

past tense

subsided·

present participle

subsiding·

third person

subsides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about subside

What does subside mean?

subside means "wear off or die down". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subside?

subside has 2 syllables: sub-side. The stress falls on "side". In IPA it is /səbˈsaɪd/.

What is another word for subside?

Close synonyms include lessen, settle, sink. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subside a common word?

subside is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with subside?

46 words rhyme with subside. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.