Subside vs Digestive - What's the difference?
subside | digestive |
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,.
Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.
That causes or promotes digestion.
* Herman Melville, Omoo
A substance that aids digestion.
(UK, Ireland) A digestive biscuit.
As a verb subside
is to sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.As an adjective digestive is
of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.As a noun digestive is
a substance that aids digestion.subside
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Verb
(subsid)digestive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- While the doctor and the natives were taking a digestive nap after dinner, I strolled forth to have a peep at the country which could produce so generous a meal.
Noun
(en noun)- I bought a packet of chocolate digestives .