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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..

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..

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.

Founder :: Founder (v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship..

Sink :: Sink (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

Slur :: Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them..

Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like..

Imbrute :: Imbrute (v. i.) To sink to the state of a brute.

Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support..

N :: N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation,

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die..

Sink :: Sink (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole..

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

Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx..

Subside :: Subside (v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.

Merge :: Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

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