Sink

Verb

 * 1)  to descend into a liquid or other substance or material
 * 2)  to submerge (something) in a liquid or other substance or material
 * 3)  to cause (a ship, etc) to sink
 * 4)  to push (something) into something
 * 5) * The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.
 * 6) * The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.
 * 7)  Describing metaphorically the experience of apprehension, disappointment, or momentary depression as felt via an internal human organ (usually the heart)
 * 8) * 1897,, Chapter 21
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1915 Burgess, Thronton W., The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston; ch. XIX:
 * Peter's heart sank. "Don't you think it is dreadful?" he asked.
 * 1)  to pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole
 * 2) * 2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel
 * She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
 * “Have you been practising?” I ask my sister.
 * “Some,” she says, “play again?”
 * “One more.”
 * 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.

Synonyms

 * descend, go down
 * dip, dunk, submerge

Derived terms

 * sinker
 * sink in
 * sink like a stone
 * sinking ship
 * countersink

Noun



 * 1) A basin used for holding water for washing
 * 2) A sinkhole
 * 3) A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
 * 4) A heat sink
 * 5) A place that absorbs resources or energy
 * 6)  The motion of a sinker pitch
 * Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
 * 1)  An object or callback that captures events; event sink

Synonyms

 * basin, washbasin

Thesaurus
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Etymology
From sincan:, from, from.

Verb

 * Albanian: zhyt
 * Arabic: غرق
 * Armenian: սուզվել
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 下沉
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vajuma
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: βυθίζομαι, βουλιάζω
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:


 * Norwegian: synke
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, утонуть , опускаться, погружаться
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: опускатися, знижуватися,, впадати, , of the sun , , занурюватися, іти на дно ('go to the bottom'), потупати, of a foundation осідати, into the mind в пам’ять , врізатися в пам’ять , weaken or die слабшати , into poverty зубожіти, have one's spirits sink занепасти духом


 * Albanian: zhyt
 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * Russian:, утопить , погружать
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, a well колодязь   колодязь , capital невдало покласти


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Estonian: uputama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:, ποντίζω
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 沈める
 * Latin:, -is, mersum, -ere
 * Norwegian: senke
 * Polish: zatapiać, zatopić
 * Russian:, потопить
 * Spanish: hundir
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: затопити


 * Albanian: ngul
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic:
 * Ukrainian: всадити, вколоти

Noun

 * Albanian: lavaman, lajtore
 * Arabic: مجلى, مغسلة
 * Catalan: pica, lavabo
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 盥洗盆, 洗手盆
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, afwasbak
 * Esperanto: lavujo
 * Estonian: valamu, kraanikauss
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: シンク, 流し
 * Macedonian: мијалник,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: pia
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: умывальник, ,
 * Serbian: sudopera
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: lavabo
 * Ukrainian: (кухонний) злив, (для стікання води)


 * Finnish: lämpönielu


 * Swedish: värmesänka

Related terms

 * countersink

Anagrams

 * inks
 * skin

Noun

 * 1) ham

Noun

 * 1) zinc (element)

Anagrams

 * skin

Noun

 * 1) zinc (element)

Verb

 * 1) First-person singular of sinke in the present tense
 * 2) Imperative of sinke