sink
sink is a 4-letter English word with 28 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
- intransitive verb. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
- intransitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- transitive verb. To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
- transitive verb. Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
- transitive verb. To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
- transitive verb. To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
- transitive verb. To conseal and appropriate.
- transitive verb. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
- transitive verb. To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
- noun. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
- noun. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
- noun. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
- noun. a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- noun. plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- noun. a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- noun. (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
"the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide"
- verb. fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
"The real estate market fell off"
- verb. embed deeply
"She sank her fingers into the soft sand"
"He buried his head in her lap"
- verb. descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
"He sank into bed"
"She subsided into the chair"
- verb. pass into a specified state or condition
"He sank into nirvana"
- verb. fall or descend to a lower place or level
"He sank to his knees"
- verb. cause to sink
"The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor"
- verb. fall or sink heavily
"He slumped onto the couch"
"My spirits sank"
- verb. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
- verb. appear to move downward
"The sun dipped below the horizon"
"The setting sun sank below the tree line"
Synonyms
cesspit, cesspool, sump, sinkhole, slump, bury, subside, lapse, pass, drop, settle, dip
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sink:
Common word forms
sinks, sinked, sinker, sinkful, sinking, sinkable, sinkless
Words from these letters
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