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Sink

noun
1.
Plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe.
2.
(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system.
3.
A depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof.  Synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole.
4.
A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it.  Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sump.
verb
(past sank; past part. sunk, obs. sunken; pres. part. sinking)
1.
Fall or descend to a lower place or level.  Synonyms: drop, drop down.
2.
Cause to sink.
3.
Pass into a specified state or condition.  Synonyms: lapse, pass.
4.
Go under,.  Synonyms: go down, go under, settle.
5.
Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place.  Synonym: subside.  "She subsided into the chair"
6.
Appear to move downward.  Synonym: dip.  "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
7.
Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly.  Synonyms: fall off, slump.
8.
Fall or sink heavily.  Synonyms: slide down, slump.  "My spirits sank"
9.
Embed deeply.  Synonym: bury.  "He buried his head in her lap"



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"Sink" Quotes from Famous Books



... contrary to Deveny's wishes. For her father had told her about Lamo's men—how they were slaves to the will of the man whose deeds of outlawry had made him feared wherever men congregated; and she knew Lamo itself was a sink-hole of iniquity where women were swallowed by ...
— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer
... strayed aside from the path, stumbled, fallen, and, as it chanced, was received into one of those unsuspected apertures in the ground which are common in all cavernous countries, being sometimes the entrance to extensive caves, and which are here denominated "sink-holes." ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... scarlet, the rosy flush that had been coaxed into the young wife's cheeks during the long, dry, happy summer changed to a crimson spot, her eyes acquired a strained, longing, mournful expression, and after she had had an attack of coughing she would sink together as if the autumn winds had broken her as they had the stems of the mallow which were hanging from the trellis in the ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... forms and gods who were enemies of Troy, and before his eyes the whole city seemed to sink down into the fire. Even as a mountain oak upon the hills on which the woodmen ply their axes bows its head while all its boughs shake about it, till at last, as blow comes after blow, with a mighty groan it ...
— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various
... merchandise, which carries a check in its own tendency, the cause in its present extent can not be very long in duration. The evil will not, however, be viewed by Congress without a recollection that manufacturing establishments, if suffered to sink too low or languish too long, may not revive after the causes shall have ceased, and that in the vicissitudes of human affairs situations may recur in which a dependence on foreign sources for indispensable supplies may be ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various


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