Subsidence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.


                                                    --Bp.
                                                    Warburton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  subsidence
       n 1: an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the
            manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in
            remission" [syn: {remission}, {remittal}]
       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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "subsidence":
     avalanche, cadence, catabasis, catenary, cessation, coast,
     collapse, crash, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, deadlock,
     deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, decrescendo,
     decurrence, diminuendo, dive, downtrend, downturn, droop, drop,
     dwindling, dying down, ebb, ebbing, fall, full stop, glide,
     glissade, glissando, halt, landslide, landslip, lapse, lock,
     lowering, plunge, remission, retreat, sag, sideslip, sinkage, skid,
     slide, slip, slippage, slither, slowdown, slump, snowslide,
     snowslip, stand, standstill, stillstand, stop, submergence, swag,
     wane, waning