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Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes..

Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.

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 keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

Diesinking :: Diesinking (n.) The process of engraving dies.

Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..

Quant :: Quant (n.) A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

Tubbing :: Tubbing (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety..

Suspension :: Suspensible (a.) Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

Jack :: Jack (n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.

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..

Pregravitate :: Pregravitate (v. i.) To descend by gravity; to sink.

Scuttle :: Scuttle (v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship..

Trepan :: Trepan (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever..

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..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material..

Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects)..

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