subsiding

subsiding
    n 1: a gradual sinking to a lower level [syn: {settling},
         {subsiding}, {subsidence}]
    

Subside \Sub*side"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Subsided}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Subsiding}.] [L. subsidere; sub under, below + sidere
   to sit down, to settle; akin to sedere to sit, E. sit. See
   {Sit}.]
   1. To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
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   2. To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
      "Heaven's subsiding hill." --Dryden.
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   3. To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be
      calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as,
      the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the
      fever has subsided. "In cases of danger, pride and envy
      naturally subside." --C. Middleton.
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   Syn: See {Abate}.
        [1913 Webster] Subsidence
    

109 Moby Thesaurus words for "subsiding":
      at rest, calm, cloistered, collapsing, coming apart, contractive,
      cool, cracking, crumbling, decadent, deciduous, declining,
      declivitous, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, decurrent,
      degenerate, deliquescent, descendant, descending, deteriorating,
      diminishing, diminuendo, disintegrating, down, down-reaching,
      downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking,
      downward, draining, drooping, dropping, dwindling, ebbing, effete,
      even-tenored, fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting,
      going to pieces, halcyon, hushed, impassive, isolated, languishing,
      lessening, marcescent, moldering, on the descendant,
      on the downgrade, on the wane, pacific, peaceable, peaceful,
      pining, placid, plummeting, plunging, quiescent, quiet, reductive,
      regressive, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retrograde,
      retrogressive, sagging, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated,
      setting, sheltered, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping,
      slumping, smooth, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic,
      stolid, submerging, tabetic, tottering, tranquil, tumbledown,
      unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled,
      unstirring, untroubled, waning, wasting, wilting, withering,
      worsening