sink

Signification (English)

Verb

1. To move or be moved into something.
2. To move or be moved into something.
3. To move or be moved into something.
4. To move or be moved into something.
5. To move or be moved into something.
6. To diminish or be diminished.
7. To diminish or be diminished.
8. To diminish or be diminished.
9. (slang) To conceal and appropriate.
10. (slang) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
11. (slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
12. (slang) To pay absolutely.
13. (slang) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
14. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
15. To die.
16. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

Noun

1. A basin used for holding water for washing.
2. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
3. A sinkhole.
4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
5. A heat sink.
6. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
7. A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
8. Descending motion; descent.
9. Descending motion; descent.
10. An object or callback that captures events.
11. A destination vertex in a transportation network.
12. A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
13. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
14. A depression in a stereotype plate.
15. A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
16. An excavation smaller than a shaft.
17. One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.

Concepts

couler

évier

sombrer

s’enfoncer

enfoncer

lavabo

baisser

descendre

tomber

noyer

doline

décliner

rencontrer

forer

immerger

abattre

plonger

naufrager

puits

submerger

faire naufrage

toucher

fosse

aven

avilissement

échoir

être enfoncé

faire couler

perdre de l’argent

récepteur

s’abaisser

saborder

s’affaisser

se baisser

s’effondrer

s’embourber

s’enliser

se tasser

s’incliner

siphon

tub

ne plus pouvoir sortir

rester enfermé

être bosselé

avoir un creux

affaiblissement moral

se sentir déprimé

évier de cuisine

s'abaisser

abaissement

s'enfoncer

aisance

baignoire

🛀

bassin

chuter

cloaque

comme

courbé

décroître

dégoutter

diminuer

enfoncé

être encaissé

faire une embardée

fosse d’aisance

naufrage

passer

se coucher

se pencher

se retirer

succomber

tremper

vaciller

Synonyms

submerge

drown

fall

go down

plunge

settle

dive

drop

subside

basin

descend

dip

immerse

cesspool

washbasin

founder

set

slump

go under

sump

collapse

decline

sewer

capsize

sinkhole

cesspit

broach

perish

cave in

wash basin

strike

washstand

scuttle

bore

fall down

tap

soak

lapse

submerse

fall off

lower

sag

drop down

be submerged

washbowl

lavatory

fall in

pass

enter

submerged

droop

sink into

drowned

stoop

plummet

be drowned

decrease

wash-basin

douse

drenched

drain

bury

wane

penetrate

tub

imbed

swamp

depressed

saturate

dig

lessen

excavate

souse

trend toward

be prone to

kitchen sink

shower

🚿

cause to sink

incline

swallow hole

slide down

deflate

stick

slant

pierce

get stuck

give

wreck

become lower

cringe

be disposed to

come down

doline

feel depressed

get wet

go to ruin

gravitate

disappear

handbasin

lurch

incline toward

let fall

drill

move downward

push

quaff

rain

🌧️

ram

🐏

recess

repeater

restrain

rot

ruin

scupper

sheathe

shipwreck

shrink

sinking

slip

slip away

slop

slope

slosh

splash

squat

stab

stuff

submergence

submersion

subsidence

suppress

swallow

swallowed up

swallow-hole

swig

swoop

tank

terminate

throat

thrust

tilt

tip

become bent

drop into

topple

translator

transponder

trough

tum

tumble

walk in

wash-bowl

waste away

waterlogging

weaken

well

be dented

be destroyed

break to pieces

cash affect concern

go to the bottom

grow less

heel over

hit draw

knock back

light rain

move down

plunge into

put into

sink in

move violently

touch feel

yield to

drown in water

be indented

become depressed

be immersed

heed over

water trough

manure sink

become hollow

cenote

subsidency

be sunken

casting-in

dolina

low-temperature receiver

cold source

low-temperature level

shrink mark

shake hole

contain

shakehole

abasement

abate

absorb

absorbed

abut

adjoin

alight

bate

bathtub

🛁

become submerged

bend

bend over

block up

bow down

bowl

buzz off

careen

cave

channel

cistern

clean out

come across

come in

countersink

cram

dash

💨

deep

degrade

depress

destroy

deteriorate

diminish

discharge

disembark

dishpan

downcast

downthrow

draught

draw back

drench

drink

🥤

dry up

duck

🦆

dunk

dwindle

eaves

embed

encounter

engulf

evaporate

fauces

finish

float

flood

flow

forfeit

formed

get rid of

give out

gorge

gutter

hang

harlot

hold

hollow

humble

imbibe

imbue

immerge

immersed

impregnate

infiltration

inlet

insert

interpolator

inundate

invest

irrigation canal

jam

lavabo

lean

lean back

let oneself go

liquidate

list

lose weight

lowland

m

m

meet

moat

nosedive

overflow

overwhelm

pay off

penetration

play

plughole

pond

pool

port

precipitate

press

profligate

Prononcé comme (IPA)

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Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: synken

Cognate with frison occidental: sinke

Cognate with bas-allemand: sinken

Cognate with néerlandais: zinken

Cognate with allemand: sinken

Cognate with danois: -

Cognate with norvégien bokmål: -

Cognate with suédois: sjunka

Cognate with ancien anglais: senċan

In summary

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.