Die woordeboekdefinisie van "sakking" is om minder intens, gewelddadig of ernstig te word; om geleidelik af te neem in intensiteit, hoeveelheid of frekwensie. Dit kan ook verwys na die sink of afsakking van 'n gebou of stuk grond.
But, at last, above the subsiding red of the fire, above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps, and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures, came the white light of the day.
Save for a subsiding stir of dust, the further end of the laboratory was empty.
The sexual afterglow of her dream state encounter hummed beneath the subsiding panic.
The pain began subsiding, and she rolled onto her back.
The smoke and heat were intense for a moment before subsiding.
The bruising it had taken was subsiding before my eyes, and new teeth were already growing in where there had been only bleeding sockets before.
