Definition of sink

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Sink (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt..

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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..
Founder :: Founder (v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship..
Countersinking :: Countersinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countersin.
Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
Suspension :: Suspensible (a.) Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.
Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Countersink :: Countersink (v. t.) To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw..
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..
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline..
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin..
Sink :: Sink (v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west..
Sinker :: Sinker (n.) One who, or that which, sinks..
Fall :: Fall (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence..
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking.
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water..
Faint :: Faint (n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
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..
Introcession :: Introcession (n.) A depression, or inward sinking of parts..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
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..
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