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ground failures

ground failures is the plural of ground failure.

Meaning of ground failure

Noun

ground failure (plural ground failures)

  1. An effect of seismic activity, such as an earthquake, where the ground becomes very soft, due to the shaking, and acts like a liquid, causing landslides, spreading, and settling.

Questions about ground failures

What is ground failures the plural of?
Ground failures is the plural of ground failure.

Words near ground failures in the dictionary

  1. ground effect machines
  2. ground effects
  3. ground elder
  4. ground elders
  5. ground failure
  6. ground failures
  7. ground finch
  8. ground finches
  9. ground fish
  10. ground floor
  11. ground floors

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