Word Meanings - SINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. sökkva, Dan. 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

Additional info about word: SINK

sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. sökkva, Dan. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINK)

• Abase
• Degrade
• disgrace
• bring low
• reduce
• humble
• demean
• stoop
• humiliate
• depress
• lower
• sink
• dishonor
• Decay Decline
• wane
• dwindle
• rot
• wither
• perish
• waste
• ebb
• decrease
• Die
• Expire
• depart
• decline
• decease
• disappear
• languish
• fade
• decay
• cease
• Droop
• Sink
• flag
• pine
• drop
• bend
• incurve
• Fade
• Fall
• fail
• droop
• vanish
• change
• pale
• bleach
• set
• etiolate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SINK)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• aggrandize
• elevate

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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
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• BRAZIL NUT
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• BREAKMAN
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• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• DWINDLE
  1. To make less; to bring low. Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught. Thomson. 2. To break; to disperse. Clarendon.
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• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• WASTEL
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• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
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• WINDFLOWER
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• OPPROBRIOUS
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• TECTIBRANCHIA
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