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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sink \Sink\ (s[i^][ng]k), verb (used without an object) [imp. {Sunk} (s[u^][ng]k), or ({Sank} (s[a^][ng]k)); p. p. {Sunk} (obs. {Sunken}, -- now used as adjective); 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.
I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2.
2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49.
3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44.
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. --Shak.
He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24.
Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer.
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. --Addison.
Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sunk \Sunk\, imp. & p. p. of {Sink}.
{Sunk fence}, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sunk
adjective: doomed to extinction [syn: {done for(p)}, {ruined}, {undone}, {washed-up}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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; "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}]
verb
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]:
sunk See {sink}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "sunk": balled up, blue, boat-shaped, boatlike, bollixed up, bowl-shaped, bowllike, buggered, buggered up, cast down, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, cooked, craterlike, crestfallen, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, debased, dejected, depressed, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, down-in-the-mouth, downcast, downhearted, downthrown, droopy, fallen, fouled up, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, gummed up, hashed up, hollow, hollowed, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, loused up, low, lowered, messed up, mucked up, navicular, naviform, prostrate, queered, reduced, retiring, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, screwed up, scyphate, shot, snafued, snarled up, spoonlike, submerged, sunken
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