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subsidence   (TTS Sound)

The noun subsidence has 3 senses

• remission, remittal, subsidence -- (an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission")


• settling, subsiding, subsidence -- (a gradual sinking to a lower level)


• cave in, subsidence -- (the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it)