The word 'subsiding' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is often used to describe a decrease or lessening of something, typically in relation to physical phenomena or emotions. Example: The storm finally began subsiding after hours of heavy rain and strong winds.
There's the bogus professor, the major trading on old glory, the hint of dangerous foreigners, and Mrs W is, of course, Britain: living in a crumbling, crooked, subsiding house stuffed with reminders of naval glories.
This lingering insularity, encouraged by what he regarded as the obstinate egotism and narrow vision of his successor, provided him with a cause that saved him from that elder statesman's fate of subsiding into the Lords or persisting on the Commons backbenches like an extinct volcano.
The massive investments in infrastructure that the government unleashed as a stimulus response to the global financial crisis are subsiding.
As a boy he looks on uncomprehendingly as his father slips into alcoholism: "He just disappeared by degrees before our eyes, subsiding into a secret disillusionment I never understood, hiding the drink".
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Like so many of his predecessors, Mr Koizumi seems to be gently subsiding into Japan's familiar political quicksand.Central reforms are being abandoned, say his critics, or neutered.
In the mid-2000s, when commodity prices were booming and Colombia's internal conflicts were subsiding, the government offered incentives for foreign firms to come in and create mining jobs.
Polls show that insecurity is Mexicans' biggest worry.Now, for the first time since murders began to soar in 2008, the rate is subsiding.
The conventional wisdom now is that the wars of the next century will be over water.Cut and driedMany cities, including Mexico city, Bangkok and Jakarta, have been subsiding in recent decades as underground aquifers have been drained by growing populations.
So, to some extent, low income customers had been subsiding my free chequeing account by paying overdraft fees.The bank executive shrugged off the crackdown on overdraft fees, claiming they'd find another source of revenue by charging fees on some other transaction.
Levels of radiation have mostly been subsiding, though unevenly spread.
