Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of subside
nounsubsiding (plural subsidings)
plural subsidings
- The act by which something subsides.
With such violent subterranean forces in operation, even at the present day, it is easy to apprehend how numerous must have been the uprisings and subsidings of the solid matter of the earth in this region during bye-gone ages.
1871, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with subsiding
providingridingdecidinghidingslidingguidingdividingsidingpresidingglidingoverridingabidingparaglidingcollidingcoincidingstridingbidingbackslidingconfidingchidingderidingjoyridingblindsidingnondividing
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subsiding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subsiding
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subsiding,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subsiding.
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