subsidence

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  1. The act or process of subsiding, in any sense of the verb subside. With poetry it was rather better. He delighted in the swell and subsidence of the rhythm, and the happily-recurring rhyme. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, x. In certain large areas where subsidence has probably been long in progress, the growth of the corals has been sufficient to keep the reefs up to the surface. Darwin, Coral Reefs, p. 104.
  2. Synonyms Ebb, decrease, diminution, abatement.

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  • Beyond the subsidence was a blue ghost of the city I could just see, cone-shaped blocks all in a line, and the distant column of the Delux Hyperia Building. —  Tanith_Lee_-_The_Silver_Metal_Lover3
  • I shall be quite prepared to subscribe to your doctrine of subsidence: indeed from the quite independent evidence of the coral reefs I coloured my original map in my Coral volumes colours [ sic ] of the Aru Islands as one of subsidence, but got frightened and left it uncoloured. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
  • If such a subsidence were to come under Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Brisbane, it might be of such a magnitude that the whole city would disappear into the gulf. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • An investigation is now under way to determine whether the subsidence has been caused by a mine. —  T&S news feed
  • What with glacial subsidence, it has lost a toe now. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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