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subsidence


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Subsidence  \Sub*sid"ence\,  Subsidency  \Sub*sid"en*cy\,  n.  [L. 
  subsidens  -entis,  p.  pr  of  subsidere  See  {Subside}.] 
  The  act  or  process  of  subsiding. 
 
  The  subdual  or  subsidence  of  the  more  violent  passions. 
  --Bp. 
  Warburton 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  subsidence 
  n  1:  an  abatement  in  the  manifestations  of  a  disease;  "his  cancer 
  is  in  remission"  [syn:  {remission}] 
  2:  a  gradual  sinking  to  a  lower  level  [syn:  {settling},  {subsiding}] 
  3:  the  sudden  collapse  of  something  into  a  hollow  beneath  it 
  [syn:  {cave  in}] 




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