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sink
Verb
  • ∙ To move or be moved into something. heading, physical
    • ∙ To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. ergative
    • ∙ To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight. transitive
    • ∙ To push (something) into something. transitive
    • ∙ To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole. transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf
  • ∙ To diminish or be diminished. heading, social
    • ∙ To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression. intransitive, figuratively, of the human heart
    • ∙ To cause to decline; to depress or degrade. transitive, figuratively
    • ∙ To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals. intransitive
  • ∙ To conceal and appropriate. transitive, slang, archaic
  • ∙ To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. transitive, slang, archaic
  • ∙ To reduce or extinguish by payment. transitive, slang, archaic
  • ∙ To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength. intransitive
  • ∙ To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. intransitive
Noun
  • ∙ A basin used for holding water for washing
  • ∙ A drain for carrying off wastewater
  • ∙ A sinkhole geology
  • ∙ A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
  • ∙ A heat sink
  • ∙ A place that absorbs resources or energy
  • ∙ The motion of a sinker pitch baseball
  • ∙ An object or callback that captures events; event sink computing, programming
  • ∙ a destination vertex in a transportation network graph theory