Synonyms:
cave_in, subsidence
Meaning: the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it
Synonyms:
settling, subsiding, subsidence
Meaning: a gradual sinking to a lower level
Synonyms:
remission, remittal, subsidence
Meaning: an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"
Usage examples
It may have been based on the remembrances of a great local inundation, possibly due to the subsidence of great areas of land.
The mathematical parts are especially impressive: distribution of the dust of Krakatoa; velocity of translation and rates of subsidence; altitudes and persistences--