sink

Meaning

Verb

1. (ergative, physical) To move or be moved into something.
2. (physical, transitive) To move or be moved into something.
3. (physical, transitive) To move or be moved into something.
4. (physical, transitive) To move or be moved into something.
5. (physical, transitive) To move or be moved into something.
6. (figuratively, intransitive) To diminish or be diminished.
7. (figuratively, transitive) To diminish or be diminished.
8. (intransitive) To diminish or be diminished.
9. (archaic, slang, transitive) To conceal and appropriate.
10. (archaic, slang, transitive) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
11. (slang, transitive) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
12. (slang, transitive) To pay absolutely.
13. (archaic, slang, transitive) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
14. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
15. (archaic, intransitive) To die.
16. (intransitive) 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. (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
9. (uncountable) 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.

Opposite of

faucet

Synonyms

submerge

drown

fall

go down

plunge

settle

drop

dive

subside

dip

descend

basin

cesspool

immerse

washbasin

founder

set

slump

go under

sump

sewer

decline

collapse

sinkhole

capsize

cesspit

cave in

scuttle

perish

fall down

washstand

tap

broach

wash basin

strike

bore

lapse

soak

be submerged

lower

submerse

drop down

fall off

sag

be drowned

lavatory

stoop

enter

plummet

bury

Translations

affondare

sinken

couler

évier

hundir

zinken

hundirse

sombrer

afundar

s’enfoncer

βυθίζομαι

Waschbecken

pia

βυθίζω

fregadero

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪŋk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: synken

Cognate with Western Frisian: sinke

Cognate with Low German: sinken

Cognate with Dutch: zinken

Cognate with German: sinken

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: -

Cognate with Swedish: sjunka

Cognate with Old English: 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.