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1. Fall or descend to a lower place or level
   "He sank to his knees";
   - drop, drop down
    
2. (of a ship etc.) go under water
   "The raft sank and its occupants drowned";
   - settle, go down, go under
    
3. Cause to sink
   "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor"
    
4. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   - descend, fall, go down, come down
    
5. Pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
   "He sank into nirvana";
   - pass, lapse
    
6. Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
   "He sank into bed";
   - subside
    
7. Appear to move downward
   "The setting sun sank below the tree line";
   - dip
    
8. Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
   "The real estate market sank";
   - slump, fall off
    
9. Fall or sink heavily
   "My spirits sank";
   - slump, slide down
    
10. Embed deeply
    "She sank her fingers into the soft sand";
    - bury

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"
    
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
   - sinkhole, swallow hole, doline, dolina
    
4. A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
   - cesspool, cesspit, sump

Sounds like: sima, sink, sync, synch

Derived forms: sank, sinks, sinking, sunk

See also: slide

Type of: action, activity, break, cave in, change posture, cistern, collapse, decline, depression, displace, drop, embed, engraft, fall in, founder, give, give way, go, imbed, implant, locomote, move, natural action, natural depression, natural process, plant, plumbing fixture, travel

Antonym: source

Encyclopedia: Sink, Mark