Verb (used without object), : The laughter subsided. ,to cause coffee grounds to subside.    From Dictionary.com. 

"Girls 'heads always do ache," answered Tom, subsiding from a roar into a chuckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference

She grinned, exhilarated, and turned to her father, her grin subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Yogi’s Review Forum] Reference

Bowman noticed the calm Yeti faces and slowly sat back, his intense expression subsiding into sullen neutrality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

DUNCAN: It looks like it's going to be kind of subsiding in September, but October is going to be wet.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2003] Reference

The river is subsiding, which is taking the pressure off that wall, but we don't know what's going to happen. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Resource stocks, particularly, saw the benefit of "subsiding" concerns about European debt, said Commsec economist Savanth Sebastian.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Now, the firing is subsiding, and hiring is reviving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Job Cheer for the New Year] Reference

I had noted before arising that the gale was subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Concern about the capital rules appears to be subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [SMFG's Results Offer Hope for Japan Banks] Reference

But after Christmas was over, there was no actual subsiding of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

"I am fearful the house will not stand; is the water subsiding?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark] Reference

His fears subsiding, he retraced his steps towards the entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

But such concerns about the capital rules appear to be subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese Banks Post Solid Results] Reference

The sense of disorientation set up by the tractors was subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarm Clock] Reference

On the fourth day the swelling was subsiding and there was no pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference

In Poland, inflation was 344 percent in 1990 before subsiding this year.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Big Bang' In Moscow] Reference

Fossil aquifers are being drained and in areas the land is actually subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Futurist: China's Uncertain Future] Reference

The water was subsiding materially and the work of rescue was thus made easier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference

Evadne said, indicating an easy chair and subsiding into her own again as she spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

For many, the challenges of subsiding walls and rotting timbers is part of the attraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Challenges of Castle Ownership] Reference

Presently he stood upon it in the subsiding rustle of the leaves, breathless and trembling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference

By evening, their emotions were subsiding to a certain permanent pride that Ch'kara had given a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference

"Oh, I guess I must be crazy," said Amy, subsiding and seeming a little ashamed of her outburst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference

"You forgot to feed 'em, then?" he said, his color heightening for a moment, but soon subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

A glance outside showed her the boat, and showed her also that the water was certainly subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference

The next sentence explains: "I wore suits, blow dried my hair, and began to feel my anger subsiding.".    From Wordnik.com.  [See Dick Run The Country] Reference

We're technically in a "recovery," but that's like saying the flood waters are subsiding after a tidal wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Recession's Over. The Emergency Isn't] Reference

On the fourth day the inflammation was evidently subsiding, and on the sixth day it was scarcely perceptible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

At least his mouth and throat were empty -- no more foam -- and the pain was subsiding to a more normal intensity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference

Embarrassment dissolved into helpless laughter, subsiding only when the Ranger had collapsed onto his sleeping mat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference

Managers beckoned hope by frequent assertions, sometimes in the form of bulletins, that the indignation was subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

At present, it would appear, that the alarm of the farmers on this score was premature and excessive, and is subsiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference

She shivered under him, her screams gradually subsiding to sobs, until she was close to passing out with pain and horror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference

Fear of external Communist conquest in many Asian nations is already subsiding -- and with this, the spirit of hope is rising.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

To the left, the Mediterranean was calmly subsiding from the effects of the gale, its undulations still sparkling in the sunbeams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

Upon a log he drifted down many a day's journey, till the river, subsiding, left him and his log upon the banks of the River of Fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference

My mind travelled from one thought to another, whilst ever and anon a struggling sob for breath seemed like the subsiding of a tempest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the White-Rock Cove] Reference

But those bewitching smiles subsiding, Paul is obliged to regain favor by more explicit recitals, seconded by her pertinent questioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference