Subside

  • 11subside — (sub si d ) s. m. 1°   Secours d argent que des sujets donnent à leur souverain. Les subsides accordés au roi d Angleterre par le parlement. On demanda tant au clergé par forme de subside. •   Ils se trouvent fort chargés par cent mille écus de… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 12SUBSIDE — s. m. Impôt, levée de deniers qu on fait sur le peuple pour les nécessités de l État. Nouveau subside. Imposer, lever, payer un subside, des subsides.   Il se dit aussi de Tous les secours d argent que des sujets donnent à leur souverain. On… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 13subside — UK [səbˈsaɪd] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms subside : present tense I/you/we/they subside he/she/it subsides present participle subsiding past tense subsided past participle subsided 1) to become weaker, less violent, or less severe The… …

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  • 14subside — verb ADVERB ▪ quickly, rapidly, soon ▪ My laughter soon subsided. ▪ gradually, slowly ▪ The storm gradually subsided …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 15SUBSIDE — n. m. Impôt occasionnel, secours d’argent accordé par des sujets à leur souverain. Lever, payer un subside. Les subsides accordés au roi d’Angleterre par le parlement. Il se dit aussi d’un Secours en argent donné à un particulier. On lui accorda… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 16subside — subsidence /seuhb suyd ns, sub si dns/, n. subsider, n. /seuhb suyd /, v.i., subsided, subsiding. 1. to sink to a low or lower level. 2. to become quiet, less active, or less violent; abate: The laughter subsided. 3. to sink or fall to the… …

    Universalium

  • 17subside — verb a) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees. The sea subsides. b) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to …

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  • 18subside — sub|side [səbˈsaıd] v [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: subsidere, from sidere [i] to sit down, sink ] 1.) if a feeling, pain, sound, etc subsides, it gradually becomes less and then stops = ↑die down ▪ Simon waited until the laughter subsided.… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19subside — sub|side [ səb saıd ] verb intransitive 1. ) to become weaker, less violent, or less severe: The pain should subside in an hour or two. By morning the storm had subsided. 2. ) if the level of flood water subsides, it becomes lower a ) if land… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 20subside — verb 1》 become less intense, violent, or severe.     ↘(subside into) give way to (an overwhelming feeling). 2》 (of water) go down to a lower or the normal level.     ↘(of a swelling) reduce until gone. 3》 (of a building) sink lower into the… …

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