The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ABATES
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More clues leading to the result ABATES
- Relaxes muscles for drug that is injected
- American Psycho becomes less violent
- Sailor brewing tea before head of steam dies down
- Subsides, having played with L. Olivier and J. Christie
- Going up in Dorset, a balloonist has a fall
- A beast is barking, but calms down
- Around 17ac rising tide subsides
- Calms down a wild beast
- Nocturnal mammal gets into receding sea, fades away
- Sailor eats haphazardly and goes down
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The straight part
We know that "Subsides" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case subsides = abates.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ABATES mean?
ABATES noun- Abatement.
- (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
- To become null and void.
- To nullify; make void.
- To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
- To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
- To curtail; to deprive.
- To reduce in amount, size, or value.
- To decrease in size, value, or amount.
- To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
- To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
- To deduct or omit.
- To bar or except.
- To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
- To destroy, or level to the ground.
- To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
- An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.