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Sink 1Definition: 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.
Sink 2Definition: To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. Sink 3Definition: Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Sink 4Definition: 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. Sink 5Definition: To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. Sink 6Definition: To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. Sink 7Definition: To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die. Sink 8Definition: To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. Sink 9Definition: To conseal and appropriate. Sink 10Definition: To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. Sink 11Definition: To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt. Sink 12Definition: A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. Sink 13Definition: A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. Sink 14Definition: A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; called also sink hole. sink 15Definition: a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it sink 16Definition: plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe sink 17Definition: a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof sink 18Definition: (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system; "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide" sink 19Definition: fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" sink 20Definition: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" sink 21Definition: descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" sink 22Definition: pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana" sink 23Definition: fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" sink 24Definition: cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor" sink 25Definition: fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" sink 26Definition: go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" sink 27Definition: appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
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