Definition of sink

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Sink (v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.

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Slump :: Slump (v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person..
Trepan :: Trepan (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice..
Sink :: Sink (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease..
Dimple :: Dimple (v. i.) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
Lower :: Lower (v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose..
Scuttle :: Scuttle (v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship..
Flop :: Flop (v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground..
Sinking :: Sinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sin.
Supportable :: Support (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship..
Sagging :: Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging..
Amortization :: Amortization (n.) The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid..
Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
Endure :: Endure (v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.
Sentine :: Sentine (n.) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
Gauge :: Gauge (n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
Droop :: Droop (v. t.) To let droop or sink.
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation..
Sinker :: Sinker (n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it..
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