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Sink   /sɪŋk/   Listen
Sink

noun
1.
Plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe.
2.
(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system.
3.
A depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof.  Synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole.
4.
A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it.  Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sump.
verb
(past sank; past part. sunk, obs. sunken; pres. part. sinking)
1.
Fall or descend to a lower place or level.  Synonyms: drop, drop down.
2.
Cause to sink.
3.
Pass into a specified state or condition.  Synonyms: lapse, pass.
4.
Go under,.  Synonyms: go down, go under, settle.
5.
Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place.  Synonym: subside.  "She subsided into the chair"
6.
Appear to move downward.  Synonym: dip.  "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
7.
Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly.  Synonyms: fall off, slump.
8.
Fall or sink heavily.  Synonyms: slide down, slump.  "My spirits sank"
9.
Embed deeply.  Synonym: bury.  "He buried his head in her lap"



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"Sink" Quotes from Famous Books



... that in this world—" he stammered; then, instead of completing the sentence, held her more tightly to him and let his face sink deeper into ...
— The Human Chord • Algernon Blackwood
... forget to tell him what a fine opening there is now in the gun trade. With my knowledge, and a few thousands at my back, I could bring him in his thirty per cent. as regular as the bank. After all, he must lay out his money somehow. He cannot sink it all in books and precious stones. I am sure that I could give him the ...
— The Doings Of Raffles Haw • Arthur Conan Doyle
... I had as much as denied already when I had promised to set them free. Ja couldn't exactly see the wisdom of my plan, either. He thought that we ought to follow up the ten remaining dugouts and sink them all; but I insisted that we must free as many as possible of our enemies ...
— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... went on, "—that if, before sailing, you could sink a couple of barrels of powder in the channel, with a fuse to explode them, a few minutes after we had left; the Malays would be so astonished, at the explosion, that they would not venture ...
— For Name and Fame - Or Through Afghan Passes • G. A. Henty
... carry at least ten or twelve rounds of ammunition. Could it be that the little Bella Cuba had contrived to knock a hole in her hull, and that her men must choose between beaching her immediately or having her sink? It looked as if this explanation might be the right one, for she was certainly retiring, and that with haste. To beach she must go round the point whence she had come in, approaching the ...
— The Castle Of The Shadows • Alice Muriel Williamson


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