Sekirov Dictionary

sink

/ˈsɪŋk/

verb18

  1. to go down into water, another liquid or soft ground until partly or fully covered, or to make something do this
  2. To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
  3. To diminish or be diminished.
  4. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
  5. To move or be moved into something.
  6. To push (something) into something.
  7. To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
  8. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  9. (figurative) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
  10. To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
  11. (figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
  12. To pay absolutely.
  13. To make by digging or delving.
  14. (slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
  15. (slang, no longer used) To conceal and appropriate.
  16. (slang, no longer used) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
  17. (slang, no longer used) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
  18. (no longer used) To die.

noun17

  1. A basin used for holding water for washing.
  2. A heat sink.
  3. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
  4. A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
  5. One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
  6. A sinkhole.
  7. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
  8. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
  9. Descending motion; descent.
  10. The motion of a sinker pitch.
  11. An object or callback that captures events.
  12. A destination vertex in a transportation network.
  13. A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
  14. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
  15. A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
  16. An excavation smaller than a shaft.
  17. A depression in a stereotype plate.
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sinked · sinkt · sank · sunk · sankest · sunkest · sunken · sinking · sinketh · sinks · sinkest

Phrases with sink

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