subsidence

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The process of becoming less active or severe.

   “The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.”

2. isim 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.

   “In the early hours of April 28, 1953, it was completely blocked by a subsidence, which caused the death of five persons, when a pair of semi-detached houses collapsed into the cavity.”