Word Meanings - SINKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Sink. Sinking fund. See under Fund. -- Sinking head , a riser from which the mold is fed as the casting shrinks. See Riser, n., 4. -- Sinking pump, a pump which can be lowered in a well or a mine shaft as the level of the water sinks.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINKING)

• Decay
• Declension
• waning
• sinking
• wasting
• decrease
• corruption
• decadence
• putrefaction
• rottenness
• dry rot
• consumption
• decline
• Subsidence
• Settlement
• retreat
• refluence
• ebb

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SINKING)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend

Related words: (words related to SINKING)

• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• WANING
  The act or process of waning, or decreasing. This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses. Bp. Hall.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WAN
  Won. Chaucer.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• SEAWAND
  See GIRDLES
• JUWANSA
  The camel's thorn. See under Camel.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• SWANNERY
  A place where swans are bred. "The largest swannery in England." Encyc. Brit.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• SWANKIE; SWANKY
  An active and clever young fellow. Sir W. Scott.