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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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.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties..
Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Countersink :: Countersink (n.) A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.
Reside :: Reside (v. i.) To sink; to settle, as sediment..
Sag :: Sag (n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.
Die :: Die (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc..
Depression :: Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions..
Seine :: Seine (n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish..
Merge :: Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
Gauge :: Gauge (n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
Dimple :: Dimple (v. i.) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
Set :: Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
Cesspipe :: Cesspipe (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool..
Barratry :: Barratry (n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo..
Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..
Bog :: Bog (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire..
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