Definition of sink

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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..

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Reside :: Reside (v. i.) To sink; to settle, as sediment..
Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
Diesinker :: Diesinker (n.) An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc..
Slur :: Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them..
Sink :: Sink (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole..
Jetson :: "Jetson (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy..
Quicksand :: Quicksand (n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it..
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..
Swag :: Swag (v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
Sinker :: Sinker (n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it..
Quant :: Quant (n.) A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
Lower :: Lower (v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
Flop :: Flop (v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground..
Swoon :: Swoon (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away..
Countersinking :: Countersinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countersin.
Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed..
Plumming :: Plumming (n.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines..
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