Usually means: Sinking or settling of ground.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. subsidence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subsidence: Merriam-Webster
  3. subsidence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subsidence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subsidence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Subsidence, subsidence: Wordnik
  7. subsidence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. subsidence: Wiktionary
  9. subsidence: Dictionary.com
  10. Subsidence (atmosphere), Subsidence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Subsidence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. subsidence: Rhymezone
  13. subsidence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. subsidence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. subsidence: FreeDictionary.org
  16. subsidence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. subsidence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. subsidence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subsidence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. subsidence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. subsidence: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. subsidence: Natural History Terms
  2. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See subside as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The process of becoming less active or severe.
noun:  (geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.

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