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sink English

Meaning sink meaning

What does sink mean?
Definitions in simple English

sink Verb

— If something sinks, it goes down, usually into water. During the storm, two ships sank. When he heard the news of the accident, his heart sank. Stock prices sank 10% on the news of the loss. She sank her teeth into the meat.

sink Noun

— A sink is a container for water to wash things in, usually with a drain. The kitchen sink was always full of dirty dishes. — A sink is a device that removes heat or energy. A liquid heat sink was developed for cooling electronic circuit.

sink

— 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 (= pass) pass into a specified state or condition He sank into nirvana — noun plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe — verb (= subside) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place He sank into bed She subsided into the chair — verb (= go under) go under The raft sank and its occupants drowned — verb (= dip) appear to move downward The sun dipped below the horizon The setting sun sank below the tree line — verb (= fall off) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly The real estate market fell off — verb (= bury) embed deeply She sank her fingers into the soft sand He buried his head in her lap — verb (= slump) fall or sink heavily He slumped onto the couch My spirits sank — 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 — noun (= sinkhole) 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 (= cesspool) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

Synonyms sink synonyms

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sink English » English

submerge drown fall go down plunge subside settle drop dive dip descend basin washbasin immerse cesspool set founder slump sump go under sewer decline collapse washstand wash basin tap strike sinkhole scuttle perish fall down cesspit cave in capsize broach bore submerse soak sag lower lapse fall off drop down be submerged washbowl wash-basin wane tub submerged stoop

Topics sink topics

What do people use sink to talk about?
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall
Universe, creation Sky

Sun
Universe, creation Sky Sun

Moon

  • What words refer to how the moon moves?
    rise set sink
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Swamp
Universe, creation Water

Be in water

  • What words refer to something falling or sinking into water?
    fall sink settle
Daily life Cleaning

Wash clothes
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Plumber
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Dive
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig
Language and thought Think Learn

Realize
Daily life Food Eat

Bite, chew
Daily life Cleaning

Bathe
Daily life Cleaning

Wash dishes
Daily life Sleep

Go to sleep
Physical actions Posture

Sit
Physical actions Posture

Kneel
States Quantity

All

Conjugation sink conjugation

How do you conjugate sink?

sink · verb

Examples sink examples

How do I use sink in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom put the dirty dishes in the sink.
The ship set sail only to sink two days later.
This means that houses are starting to sink, roads are breaking up and lamp-posts are leaning at crazy angles.
When I tried to set the glass down in the sink my hand slipped and it shattered to pieces.
The sun is about to sink.
I saw the ship sink in the sea.
Keiko deftly piles up the cutlery and takes them to the sink.
She swims, but does not sink.
The ship's going to sink!
If you find yourself in quicksand you'll sink more slowly if you don't move.
Can you fix our sink?
The situation has come to the point where we either sink or swim.
I haven't had time to do the dishes for two days; they are in a pile in the kitchen sink.
I am able to fix the sink this afternoon.
She put the dirty dishes in the sink.
The plumber used many tools to fix our sink.
There was a half-eaten apple near the kitchen sink.
The dishes are piling up in the sink.
Tom often leaves dirty dishes in the sink.
Above the sink are several whisky bottles.
The plumber used many different tools to fix our sink.
I thought you were going to fix the sink.

Movie subtitles

Brenda White was at the sink.
It might give them bed bugs something less to sink their teeth into.
I wish you was a wishing well. so that I could tie a bucket to you and sink you.
I even tried to sink myself to the level of the savage.
Maybe this stuff hasn't had a chance to sink in yet.
I think if you could sink a shaft in this north corner, right about here..
We'll never sink under the weight of fish we been catching.
I'm going to sink my battleships.
Sink's empty.
If I sink this, I'll beat my record. Be there in a minute!
You'd be all right in fair weather, but you'd sink in a blow.
I'd like to sink my chattering teeth in some good ol' Louisiana oysters.
Here, sink your teeth Into this. Maybe that will stop the chattering.
Behind the sink.
I should sink that right in your scalp.
The ship started to sink and we both dived overboard. - Didn't we, Stanley?
Since the Spaniards have been thoughtless enough to sink our craft. I'll see if I can't persuade them to lend us one of theirs.
I'd sink this ship with all hands before I'd serve him.
You would sink so low as to try and shoot me in the back, you rat?
They have whales that can sink a ship, but I can sink the whale.
Put it in the sink and break it up.
Don't forget to tell him the sink leaks.
If I sink this, I'll beat my record.
I never thought you'd sink to do.
Can you imagine a grown-up man having to sink so low?
I saw the boat heel over and sink.
Yeah. I got it parked under the kitchen sink.
Those who get the breaks and those who don't. Well, I'm getting the breaks now, and I'm not going to sink.
Looks like we're planning to sink a United States battleship.

News and current affairs

Consequently, the need for drastic change in the structure and style of a previously reality-impaired regime has finally begun to sink in.
The government may have to shore up the financial system if the changes in asset prices that undermined the dollar sink risk-loving or imprudent lenders.
And it will sink unless it fulfills its responsibility to act.
Russia is not strong enough to sink any part of the European market.
The MBCT approach helps participants in the classes to see more clearly the patterns of the mind and to learn how to recognize when their mood is starting to sink.
As we learned in 2014, it is a lesson that has yet to sink in entirely.
At the same time, the outside world will be looking especially carefully at what, if anything, officials plan to do if the dollar continues to sink.
But democratic countries need symbols of the extraordinary if they are not to sink into permanent mediocrity.
Holland does not have to sink into the North Sea before we do something about the world's climate; pensions do not have to decline to near-zero before social policies are adjusted.
So how low can the dollar sink?
But many branches of the service sector are a sink of dead-end, no-hope jobs.
In their view, the government's role is to establish clear rules and regulations and then let businesses sink or swim on their own.
For when you drown puppies, they sink.
This reality has taken a while to sink in, and a number of parties on the left still cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the constraints imposed by market forces.
But it is also plausible that lack of support for the euro and the ongoing US miracle will see the euro sink to exceptionally low levels of near.80 and even less.
As a result, speculators had little time to let the capital gains sink in and have a lasting impact on lifestyle expectations.
Should the ECB disappoint expectations, bond and foreign-exchange markets would confront an abrupt and damaging unwinding of positions: long-term interest rates would rise, stock markets would sink, and the exchange rate would appreciate.
In that case, Greece's geopolitical position would be weakened, its economy would sink further into recession, and social tensions would rise.
Were Gandhi alive to witness today's communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, he would sink into despair.
A Greek default would threaten to sink them, too, for it would raise immediate concerns about the solvency of Europe's systemically important banks and insurance companies.
How low men can sink in our inhumanity!
This manner of governance bodes well neither for economic growth nor democracy in the long term. For when you drown puppies, they sink.

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