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Vanished vs Subsided - What's the difference?

vanished | subsided |

As verbs the difference between vanished and subsided

is that vanished is (vanish) while subsided is (subside).

vanished

English

Verb

(head)
  • (vanish)

  • vanish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished , pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
  • (lb) To become equal to zero.
  • :The function f(x)=x2 vanishes at x=0.
  • Synonyms

    * disappear

    Derived terms

    * vanishing spray

    Noun

    (vanishes)
  • (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
  • a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
    o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
    (Rush)

    See also

    * glide (Webster 1913)

    subsided

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (subside)
  • Synonyms

    * worn off

    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,.