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subsiding

[ UK /səbsˈa‍ɪdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /səbˈsaɪdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a gradual sinking to a lower level

How To Use subsiding In A Sentence

  • So, that whole platform of south Louisiana is subsiding; it's sinking.
  • The projecting edge of some fossil-charged bed had been struck, mayhap, by an iceberg, and dashed into ruins, just as the subsiding land had brought the spot within reach of the attritive ice; and the broken heap thus detached had been shortly afterwards covered up, without mixture of any other deposit, by the red boulder-clay. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • It indicated that normal faulting processes induced from the shear of dextral strike-slip faults are active in the historically subsiding Tainan basin.
  • In the early part of the last century, most diseases peaked and were subsiding before medicine discovered the cure.
  • She rowed the boat down the waterway, her anger slowly subsiding.
  • Residents in Churchill Close, Calne, are eagerly awaiting the result of an Ombudsman's report on subsiding land beneath their gardens.
  • He wrapped her in his embrace as the panic he felt earlier finally subsiding.
  • The flooded river was subsiding rapidly.
  • In both the northern and southern hemispheres aridity occurs at latitudes characterized by more or less permanent high pressure cells and hot dry subsiding air.
  • This marble figure seems to flame and spiral up, surging, groaning like an earthquake, subsiding even as he rises.
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