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Amortize :: Amortize (v. t.) To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund..

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..

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

Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.

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..

Countersinking :: Countersinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countersin.

Lower :: Lower (v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose..

Deliquium :: Deliquium (n.) A sinking away; a swooning.

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..

Sank :: Sank () imp. of Sink.

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..

Deeply :: Deeply (adv.) At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply..

Forcer :: Forcer (n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc..

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