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Sinking   /sˈɪŋkɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Sinking  n.  A. & n. from Sink.
Sinking fund. See under Fund.
Sinking head (Founding), 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.


verb
Sink  v. t.  (past sank; past part. sunk, obs. sunken; pres. part. sinking)  
1.
To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. "(The Athenians) fell upon the wings and sank a single ship."
2.
Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. "I raise of sink, imprison or set free." "If I have a conscience, let it sink me." "Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years."
3.
To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
4.
To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. "You sunk the river repeated draughts."
5.
To conseal and appropriate. (Slang) "If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account."
6.
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. "A courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths."
7.
To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.


Sink  v. i.  (past sank; past part. sunk, obs. sunken; pres. part. sinking)  
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."
2.
To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. "The stone sunk into his forehead."
3.
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. "Let these sayings sink down into your ears."
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." "He sunk down in his chariot." "Let not the fire sink or slacken."
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."
Synonyms: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.





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"Sinking" Quotes from Famous Books



... his friend good-night and imitated the action of Hank Hazletine, wrapping his blanket around himself and lying down near the fire. He was not quite so prompt in sinking into slumber, but it was not long before Jack Dudley was the only one of the little party in command of ...
— Two Boys in Wyoming - A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) • Edward S. Ellis
... He stirred slightly, and opened his eyes once more. Once more they fell on Fay, and it seemed to her as if with the last touch of his cold lips upon her hand their relation of husband and wife had ceased. Even at that moment she realised with a sinking sense of impotence how slight her hold on him from first to last had been. Clearly he had already forgotten it, passed beyond it, would never ...
— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley
... smaller holders, was in such a condition, either from an initial lack of cultivation or from neglect or from the ravages of war, that the new proprietor may well have shrunk from the doubtful enterprise of sinking his capital in the soil, for the purpose of testing its productive qualities. In such cases it was tempting to treat the great domain as a sheep-walk or cattle-ranch. The initial expenses of preparation were small, the labour to be employed was reduced to a minimum, the returns in proportion to ...
— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge
... Army justify their own continuance or the starting of other similar colonies. The reference here is to Fort Herrick in Ohio, and the Hadleigh Colony, near London. These colonies have necessitated a continual sinking of funds contributed by the charitable public, and the return does not justify their expense. The Army should realize this, and admit the fact, instead of drawing wool over the eyes of the ignorant public by the constant reiteration of "the great work ...
— The Social Work of the Salvation Army • Edwin Gifford Lamb
... to go to pieces. The whistling wind accelerated its destruction, driving the floes far apart, heaping them up against the hull of the ship until the grinding and the prodigious pressure opened her seams and the water rushed in. The cry that the ship was sinking rung along the decks, and all hands turned with desperate energy to throwing out on the ice-floe to windward, sledges, provisions, arms, records—everything that could be saved against the sinking of the ship, which all thought was at hand. Nineteen of the ship's company were landed on the ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot


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