Definition of sink

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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..

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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.
Thurrok :: Thurrok (n.) The hold of a ship; a sink.
Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
Countersink :: Countersink (v. t.) To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork..
Subside :: Subside (v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
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..
Draught :: Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing..
Lower :: Lower (v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose..
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..
Post :: Post (v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting..
Gauge :: Gauge (n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
Countersinking :: Countersinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countersin.
Diesinker :: Diesinker (n.) An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc..
Droop :: Droop (v. t.) To let droop or sink.
Introcession :: Introcession (n.) A depression, or inward sinking of parts..
Flat :: Flat (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface..
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