🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

disminuir

Pronunciation / Transliteration: disminiˈuɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Subside/səbˈsaɪd/
verbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #6500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Esperamos a que la marea empezara a disminuir."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To become less intense, violent, or severe; to abate or die down.

    "We waited for the storm to subside before venturing outside again."
  2. 2

    To sink to a lower or normal level, such as floodwaters or land.

    "The floodwaters slowly began to subside, revealing the damage to the roads."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'subsidere', meaning to settle, sink down, or stay behind, composed of 'sub-' (under, beneath) and 'sidere' (to sit or settle). Entering the English language in the late 16th century, the term originally retained its literal geological and physical sense of water or ground sinking before broadening to include abstract notions like emotions, noise, or violence abating.

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