Definition of sink

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

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Shore :: Shore (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging..
Countersinking :: Countersinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countersin.
Vail :: Vail (v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
Deepen :: Deepen (v. t.) To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel..
Merge :: Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
Sag :: Sag (n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.
Sank :: Sank () imp. of Sink.
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..
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..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
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..
Suspension :: Suspensible (a.) Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.
Sink :: 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..
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..
Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
Pregravitate :: Pregravitate (v. i.) To descend by gravity; to sink.
Descension :: Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Depression :: Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions..
Bog :: Bog (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire..
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..
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