Subsidence Synonyms

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Synonyms for Subsidence

abatement
Reduction in amount, degree, or intensity; diminution.
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ebb
A low state; a state of depression.
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letup
A temporary stop; a pause.
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remission
A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
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slackening
The act or process of becoming less active or intense
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wane
Wane is defined as a period of decline in size or intensity.
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cave in
An act or instance of ceasing opposition or resistance:
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settling
The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
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subsiding
The act by which something subsides.
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remittal
Anything remitted; remittance
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Words Related to Subsidence

increase
An increasing or becoming increased
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landslip
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flooding
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siltation
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erosion
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seepage
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rockfalls
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Subsidence Sentence Examples

  • After the subsidence came another period of uplift, possibly still in progress.

  • Borings and soundings taken at Funafuti in 1897 indicate almost beyond doubt that the whole of this Polynesian region is an area of comparatively recent subsidence.

  • With the gradual subsidence of these areas their culture would necessarily degenerate, although echoes of sublime theogonies and philosophies are still heard in the oral traditions and folklore of many Polynesian groups.

  • The conditions favourable to the production of coal seem therefore to have been-forest growth in swampy ground about the mouths of rivers, and rapid oscillation of level, the coal produced during subsidence being covered up by the sediment brought down by the river forming beds of sand or clay, which, on re-elevation, formed the soil for fresh growths, the alternation being occasionally broken by the deposit of purely marine beds.

  • The mines suffered greatly from inundations in 1868 and 1879, and the soil on which the town is built shows signs of subsidence.

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