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Receed vs Subside - What's the difference?

receed | subside |

As verbs the difference between receed and subside

is that receed is while subside is to sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.

receed

English

Verb

(head)

    • subside

    English

    Verb

    (subsid)
  • To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
  • To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
  • To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.
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  • *:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside , his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,.