6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sink \Sink\ (s[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. {Sunk} (s[u^][ng]k), or ({Sank} (s[a^][ng]k)); p. p. {Sunk} (obs. {Sunken}, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sinking}.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. s["o]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. {Silt}.] 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. [1913 Webster] I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2. [1913 Webster] 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. [1913 Webster] The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. [1913 Webster] Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. [1913 Webster] He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24. [1913 Webster] Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. [1913 Webster] The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sunken \Sunk"en\, a. Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sunken adj 1: having a sunken area; "hunger gave their faces a sunken look" [syn: {deep-set}, {recessed}] 2: under water; e.g. at the bottom of a body of water; "sunken treasure"; "a sunken ship" [syn: {submerged}] [ant: {afloat(p)}, {aground(p)}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sink n 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; "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide" [ant: {source}] 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 [syn: {sinkhole}, {swallow hole}] 4: a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it [syn: {cesspool}, {cesspit}, {sump}] v 1: fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" [syn: {drop}, {drop down}] 2: cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor" 3: pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana" [syn: {pass}, {lapse}] 4: go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: {settle}, {go down}, {go under}] [ant: {float}] 5: descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" [syn: {subside}] 6: appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line" [syn: {dip}] 7: fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" [syn: {slump}, {fall off}] 8: fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" [syn: {slump}, {slide down}] 9: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: {bury}] [also: {sunken}, {sunk}, {sank}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sunken See {sink} From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 60 Moby Thesaurus words for "sunken": boat-shaped, boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, buried, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, debased, depressed, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, downcast, downthrown, drawn, drowned, engulfed, fallen, flooded, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, haggard, hollow, hollowed, immersed, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, inundated, low, lowered, navicular, naviform, prostrate, reduced, retiring, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, settled, spoonlike, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed, sunk, underground, undersea, underwater
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