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"Sink" Definition

noun

A cesspool.
A natural or artificial means of absorbing or removing a substance or a form of energy from a system.
A place regarded as wicked and corrupt.
A sinkhole.
A water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe and generally a piped supply of water.

verb-transitive

Informal To defeat, as in a game.
Sports To get (a ball) into a hole or basket.
To bring to a low or ruined state; defeat or destroy.
To cause to descend beneath a surface: sink a ship.
To cause to drop or lower: sank the bucket into the well.

idiom

Sink or swim Informal To fail or succeed without alternative.

verb-intransitive

To appear to move downward, as the sun or moon in setting.
To become weaker, quieter, or less forceful: His voice sank to a whisper.
To descend to the bottom; submerge.
To deteriorate in quality or condition: The patient is sinking fast. The family sank into a state of disgrace.
To diminish, as in value.

verb

To go to the bottom .
To become partly buried (as in mud).
To become engulfed.
To fall or drop to a lower place or level.
To flow at a lower depth or level.

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