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Sinking   /sˈɪŋkɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Sinking  n.  A. & n. from Sink.
Sinking fund. See under Fund.
Sinking head (Founding), a riser from which the mold is fed as the casting shrinks. See Riser, n., 4.
Sinking pump, a pump which can be lowered in a well or a mine shaft as the level of the water sinks.


verb
Sink  v. t.  (past sank; past part. sunk, obs. sunken; pres. part. sinking)  
1.
To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. "(The Athenians) fell upon the wings and sank a single ship."
2.
Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. "I raise of sink, imprison or set free." "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."
3.
To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
4.
To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. "You sunk the river repeated draughts."
5.
To conseal and appropriate. (Slang) "If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account."
6.
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. "A courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths."
7.
To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.


Sink  v. i.  (past sank; past part. sunk, obs. sunken; pres. part. sinking)  
1.
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. "I sink in deep mire."
2.
To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. "The stone sunk into his forehead."
3.
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. "Let these sayings sink down into your ears."
4.
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. "I think our country sinks beneath the yoke." "He sunk down in his chariot." "Let not the fire sink or slacken."
5.
To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. "The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him."
Synonyms: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Sinking" Quotes from Famous Books



... before continuing. Again the rotary movement with various dips of the edge of the big pan to let the waste material pass away. Small pebbles showed themselves and had to be picked out, the heavier material sinking in the natural order of things, to ...
— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
... ground-swell that was rolling in to the land of course greatly retarded the rowers. Every moment the launch plunged almost bows under into the hollow of the sea, then rising again suddenly as the waves passed under her keel, her stern sinking down level with the surface at the same time and her prow being high in the air. I thought it somewhat dangerous at first, but dad and the other men took it so coolly that I was soon reassured ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson
... the fourth century! He who sat in Caesar's palace looked out upon a dying empire. The old race was worn out with war and wine and wealth and luxury. Civilization seemed about to perish, and society was fast sinking back into barbarism. To the north of the Alps were the forest children, ruddy and robust, with their glorious youth full upon them. These young giants needed the dying language and literature and religion, and these great institutions needed their young, fresh blood. But between lay the granite ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
... thoughtful night. The night in silence under many a star, The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know, And the soul turning to thee, O vast and well-veil'd Death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee a song, Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide, Over the dense-packed cities all, and the teeming wharves, and ways, I float this carol with joy, with ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard
... the soft turf I sat silently thinking, Of days when dear brother was by; While slowly and surely the bright sun was sinking, Far down in the ...
— Our Gift • Teachers of the School Street Universalist Sunday School, Boston


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