The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word EBB , but the solution may also be EASE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Subside crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EBB | 33 % | 3 |
| ABATE | 30 % | 5 |
| WANE | 10 % | 4 |
| BATE | 5 % | 4 |
| LESSEN | 4 % | 6 |
| SINK | 3 % | 4 |
| EASE | 3 % | 4 |
| DIEDOWN | 3 % | 7 |
| RECEDE | 3 % | 6 |
| GODOWN | 1 % | 6 |
| LET UP | 1 % | 6 |
| SLACKEN | 1 % | 7 |
| SETTLE | 1 % | 6 |
| EASEUP | 1 % | 6 |
| LETUP | 1 % | 5 |
| SAG | 1 % | 3 |
| EASEOFF | 1 % | 7 |
| LULL | 1 % | 4 |
| LAPSE | 1 % | 5 |
| FALL | 1 % | 4 |
Why may EBB be the right solution?
The answer "EBB" is the right solution because it is a verb that means to gradually decrease or become less intense, which is synonymous with the word "subside."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Subside
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lessen
- settle
- decline
- decrease
- reduce
- quell
- diminish
- defuse
- elimination
- disappear
- disappearing
- vanish
Crossword Answer definitions
EBB noun- The receding movement of the tide.
- A gradual decline.
- A low state; a state of depression.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- To flow back or recede
- To fall away or decline
- To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- To cause to flow back.
- Low, shallow
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result EBB
More clues leading to the result ABATE
More clues leading to the result WANE
- Wax counterpart
- Decrease
- Ease off
- Slack off
- Wax's counterpart
- Decline
- Alternative to wax
- Begin to fade
- Diminish
- Draw to a close
More clues leading to the result BATE
- Ease
- Restrain
- Subside
- Diminish
- Decrease
- Lessen
- Moderate
- Make less intense
- Hold back, as breath
- Lessen in intensity
More clues leading to the result LESSEN
- Diminish
- Abate
- Ebb
- Cut down on auditor's classroom assignment (6)
- Ease up, as pressure
- Pull back
- Subside
- Cut back
- Mitigate
- Let up
More clues leading to the result SINK
- Drop down
- Bathroom basin
- Smell skunky
- Make, as a putt
- Basement fixture, sometimes
- Get sent down to the lower leagues?
- Laundry room fixture
- Site for soap
- Kitchen fixture
- Bathroom fixture
More clues leading to the result EASE
More clues leading to the result DIEDOWN
More clues leading to the result RECEDE
- Withdraw
- Go back
- Fall back
- Ebb
- Retreat, like a hairline
- Move back
- Reveal more forehead
- Subside
- Move away
- Give ground gradually
More clues leading to the result GODOWN
More clues leading to the result LET UP
More clues leading to the result SLACKEN
More clues leading to the result SETTLE
- Sink to the bottom
- Square, as a debt
- Agree out of court
- Deal with what you got
- Take up residence
- Reach agreement
- Colonize
- Avoid litigation
- Emigrate to Canada, e.g.
- Resolve
More clues leading to the result EASEUP
- "Leave me alone!"
- Pull back a bit
- Lower the intensity
- Become moderate
- Put the brakes on
- Slack off
- Show a little mercy
- Slacken
- Relax
- Abate
More clues leading to the result LETUP
More clues leading to the result SAG
- Get droopy
- Droop
- Reagan was its pres.
- Lose energy
- Depression
- Droop in the middle
- Go limp
- Hang down
- Bow to gravity
- What overloaded shelves do
More clues leading to the result EASEOFF
More clues leading to the result LULL
- Slow interval
- Break in the action
- Put to sleep
- Soothe
- Sing "Rock-a-Bye Baby"
- Ebb
- Quiet spell
- Quiet time
- Temporary letup
- Calm before the storm
More clues leading to the result LAPSE
- Breach
- Run out
- Expire
- Spiritual fall
- Spell of forgetfulness
- Gap, as in time
- Fall back
- Slip
- Moment of blanking out
- Pass by