Sink Meaning and Definition

Word: Sink

How to pronounce: sɪŋk

Verb

Definitions:

1. Go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged.

Example sentences: "He saw the coffin sink below the surface of the waves"

2. Descend; drop.

Example sentences: "You can relax on the veranda as the sun sinks"

3. Gradually decrease or decline in value, amount, quality, or intensity.

Example sentences: "Their output sank to a third of the prewar figure"

4. Insert beneath a surface by digging or hollowing out.

Example sentences: "Rails attached with screws sunk below the surface of the wood"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A fixed basin with a water supply and a drain.

Example sentences: "I stood at the kitchen sink"

2. A pool or marsh in which a river's water disappears by evaporation or percolation.

3. Short for sinkhole

4. A place of vice or corruption.

Example sentences: "A sink of unnatural vice, pride, and luxury"

Synonyms:

sink down

descend

pass

go

go down

drop

fall

fail

depress

fall off

reduce

depreciate

heat sink

radiator

heatsink

heat removal

washing

car wash

washer

washstand

drown

submerge

plunge

wash basin

washbasin

basin

handbasin

bowl

washbowl

crater

dive

wallow

dip

droop

settle

lower

lapse

decline

flusher

cesspool

drain

cesspit

waste

sump

tumble

wash

heat receiver

crumble

fade

melt

subside

vanish

go away

flee

sag

degenerate

slump

ebb

Antonyms:

rise

emerge

increase

Derivations:

sinking

sinker

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Sink in Other Languages...

Spanish: Lavabo

German: Waschbecken

French: évier

Italian: Lavandino

Turkish: Inmek