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sink-hole en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sinkhole.
The violence of the quake hurled people 2m (6ft) into the air, and within a matter of seconds 95 per cent of Tang-shan had collapsed into rubble. The earth split open into wide fissures and thousands of sink-holes, trees were uprooted and railroad tracks buckled. Amazingly, coal-miners working in the solid rock deep below Tang-shan survived the violent shaking that razed the city above them.
1998, Richard O'Neill, “Big Trouble in China”, in Natural Disasters, Parragon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 3:
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