sink

Meaning

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.

submerge

drop down

be submerged

sink into

be drowned

wash-basin

trend toward

be prone to

cause to sink

slide down

get stuck

become lower

be disposed to

feel depressed

go to ruin

incline toward

let fall

move downward

swallowed up

swallow-hole

become bent

drop into

wash-bowl

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

become submerged

irrigation canal

lean back

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪŋk/

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.