Definitions for subsidence



Overview of noun subsidence

The noun subsidence has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. remission, remittal, subsidence

(an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission")

2. settling, subsiding, subsidence

(a gradual sinking to a lower level)

3. cave in, subsidence

(the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it)

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