sink
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.
Inflected forms:
form: sinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sank
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sunk
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
form: sunk
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sunken
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: sinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move or be moved into something.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
physical
examples: A stone sinks in water.  The sun gradually sank in the west.
gloss: To move or be moved into something.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: An iceberg sank the Titanic.  British battleships sank the Bismarck.
gloss: To move or be moved into something.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: Before installing the new surfacing material, sink any protruding nails.
I have to take the turn, sink hooks and nails so I'll return
And it could get me every time, but I must taste fire
Infectious is the flame that burns
The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.  The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.
gloss: To move or be moved into something.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: to sink a well in the ground
As was the case with the City & South London, powers were taken to sink shafts from temporary staging in the river, about 240 ft. from the south bank, from which to begin boring the tunnels, and the first pile for the staging was driven on June 18, 1894.
gloss: To move or be moved into something.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.
gloss: To diminish or be diminished.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: But open converse is there none,
⁠So much the vital spirits sink
⁠To see the vacant chair, and think,
‘How good! how kind! and he is gone.’
I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.
Peter's heart sank. "Don't you think it is dreadful?" he asked.
gloss: To diminish or be diminished.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: to sink one's reputation
And if I have a conscience, let it sink me
Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power / Has sunk thy father more than all his years.
gloss: To diminish or be diminished.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Who would sink so low as to steal change from veterans?
gloss: To conceal and appropriate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
examples: If you are sent with ready money to buy anything at a shop, and happen at that time to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on your master's account.
gloss: To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
examples: I say not always dishonorable qualifications, but a certain flexibility of disposition; a certain courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths, and adapt ourselves to the prejudices of the minds of others […]
gloss: To drink (especially something alcoholic).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: So let's sink another drink / 'Cause it'll give me time to think
[…] just thought she was wrecked from all the Diamond White ciders she'd been sinking – I'd even bought her a couple of Blastaways, which in hindsight was a mistake.
gloss: To pay absolutely.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.
for 13 of his 15 years in charge, Burrell sank more money into the farm than he received in revenues, and the estate was £1.5m overdrawn.
gloss: To reduce or extinguish by payment.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
examples: to sink the national debt
gloss: To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
then keep an even steady Fire under them, not too fierce at first, lest you scorch them; and let not the Fire sink or slacken, but rather increase till the Hops be near dry'd
gloss: To die.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: However, before the entire mass was detached, a copious oozing of blood took place, when the patient lost from a pint to a pint and a half; and which, doubtless, so lowered him that he never rallied, but sank in about an hour and a half after the operation was completed.
[…] as September drew towards its close, and reports came from Munich that Gömbös was sinking fast, the Right in their turn were credited by the Prager Presse and by certain foreign journalists, who drew their inspiration from the same sources, with sensational designs.
gloss: To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him: / Through wind and waves, and storms he works his way
It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
gloss: A basin used for holding water for washing.
pos: noun
examples: Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink.
Jen: Oh. Oh!
Roy: Yeah...
Jen: Which sink?
Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house.
Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.
gloss: A drain for carrying off wastewater.
pos: noun
gloss: A sinkhole.
pos: noun
gloss: A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
pos: noun
gloss: A heat sink.
pos: noun
gloss: A place that absorbs resources or energy.
pos: noun
gloss: A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
pos: noun
gloss: Descending motion; descent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.
gloss: Descending motion; descent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
gloss: An object or callback that captures events.
pos: noun
gloss: A destination vertex in a transportation network.
pos: noun
gloss: A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
pos: noun
gloss: An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
pos: noun
gloss: A depression in a stereotype plate.
pos: noun
gloss: A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
pos: noun
gloss: An excavation smaller than a shaft.
pos: noun
gloss: One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
pos: noun
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
Related words: countersink
everything but the kitchen sink
Derived words: countersink
like a rat from a sinking ship
loose lips sink ships
resink
sinkable
sinkage
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sinkbox
sinker
sinkful
sink in
sinking fund
sinking head
sinking pump
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sink like a stone
sink one's teeth in
into
sink or swim
sinky
slop sink
unsinkability
unsinkable
antisink
apron sink
behavioral sink
Belfast sink
butler's sink
carbon sink
Carson Sink
dry sink
farmhouse sink
heavy sink
kitchen sink
laundry sink
London sink
pseudosink
shoot one in the sink
sink estate
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sink of iniquity
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time sink
utility sink
vessel sink
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: fundos
lang: Armenian
word: սուզել
roman: suzel
lang: Armenian
word: խորտակել
roman: xortakel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: batırmaq
lang: Bashkir
word: батырыу
roman: batırıw
lang: Belarusian
word: тапіць
roman: tapicʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: патапіць
roman: patapicʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: утапіць
roman: utapicʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: потопявам
roman: potopjavam
lang: Catalan
word: enfonsar
lang: Czech
word: potopit
lang: Danish
word: sænke
lang: Dutch
word: tot zinken brengen
lang: Esperanto
word: alfundigi
lang: Estonian
word: uputama
lang: Faroese
word: søkkja
lang: Finnish
word: upottaa
lang: French
word: couler
lang: Galician
word: afundir
lang: Galician
word: afondar
lang: Galician
word: alagar
lang: Georgian
word: დაძირვა
roman: daʒirva
lang: Georgian
word: ჩაძირვა
roman: čaʒirva
lang: German
word: senken
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌵𐌰𐌽
roman: sigqan
lang: Greek
word: βυθίζω
roman: vythízo
lang: Greek
word: ποντίζω
roman: pontízo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βυθίζω
roman: buthízō
lang: Hungarian
word: elsüllyeszt
lang: Icelandic
word: sökkva
lang: Ingrian
word: upottaa
lang: Ingrian
word: vajottaa
lang: Italian
word: affondare
lang: Italian
word: inabissare
lang: Italian
word: colare a picco
lang: Japanese
word: 沈める
roman: shizumeru
lang: Khmer
word: បញ្ចុះ
roman: bɑɲcoh
lang: Khmer
word: បំផ្លិច
roman: bɑmpləc
lang: Khmer
word: ប្លេង
roman: pleɛŋ
lang: Khmer
word: ពន្លង់
roman: pʊənlʊəŋ
lang: Khmer
word: ពន្លិច
roman: pʊənlɨc
lang: Khmer
word: លិច
roman: lɨc
lang: Khmer
word: សំរុត
roman: sɑmrot
lang: Latin
word: mergo
lang: Latin
word: mersum
lang: Māori
word: whakatotohu
lang: Norwegian
word: senke
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: senke
lang: Polish
word: zatapiać
lang: Polish
word: zatopić
lang: Portuguese
word: afundar
lang: Russian
word: топи́ть
roman: topítʹ
lang: Russian
word: потопи́ть
roman: potopítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: hundir
lang: Swedish
word: sänka
lang: Thai
word: จม
roman: jom
lang: Ukrainian
word: затопи́ти
roman: zatopýty
lang: Vietnamese
word: chìm