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Jackson6612 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
To flatten out so as to form a depression
subside
2 : to tend downward : descend; especially : to flatten out so as to form a depression
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
When something flattens out it doesn't form a depression. It becomes a heap of disordered mass. So, please help me to understand why the dictonary is relating 'flatten out' with 'depression'.
2 : to tend downward : descend; especially : to flatten out so as to form a depression
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
When something flattens out it doesn't form a depression. It becomes a heap of disordered mass. So, please help me to understand why the dictonary is relating 'flatten out' with 'depression'.
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Reminds me of the girl with the box-flattening machine. I think it's figurative, relative to the norm. Think of it in terms of the weather: There's normally a certain amount of activity - breezes, etc.
- Reminds me of the girl with the box-flattening machine.
- I think it's figurative, relative to the norm.
- Think of it in terms of the weather: There's normally a certain amount of activity - breezes, etc.
- Then a storm comes up.
- Then it subsides - but to an extremely (abnormally) quite state - like the eye of the storm.
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Reminds me of the girl with the box-flattening machine. 
I think it's figurative, relative to the norm.
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I think it's figurative, relative to the norm.
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