sink

Plural: sinks

Noun

plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide"
a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
A basin used for holding water for washing.
A drain for carrying off wastewater.
A sinkhole.
A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
A heat sink.
A place that absorbs resources or energy.
A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
Descending motion; descent.
Descending motion; descent.
The motion of a sinker pitch.
An object or callback that captures events.
A destination vertex in a transportation network.
A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
A depression in a stereotype plate.
A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
An excavation smaller than a shaft.
One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.

Verb

Verb Forms: sank, sunk, sunken, sinking, sinks

To descend to a lower level; to submerge.
fall or descend to a lower place or level
cause to sink
pass into a specified state or condition
go under,
descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
appear to move downward
fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
fall or sink heavily
embed deeply
To move or be moved into something.
To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
To move or be moved into something.
To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
To move or be moved into something.
To push (something) into something.
To move or be moved into something.
To make by digging or delving.
To move or be moved into something.
To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
To diminish or be diminished.
To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
To diminish or be diminished.
To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
To diminish or be diminished.
To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
To conceal and appropriate.
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
To drink (especially something alcoholic).
To pay absolutely.
To reduce or extinguish by payment.
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
To die.
To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

Examples

A stone sinks in water. The sun gradually sank in the west.
An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.
An iceberg sank the Titanic. British battleships sank the Bismarck.
His hopes would sink if he drew only vowels and no consonants in Scrabble.
I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.
Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards. The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.
to sink one's reputation
to sink the national debt

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

bury, cesspit, cesspool, dip, drop, drop down, fall off, go down, go under, lapse, pass, settle, sinkhole, slide down, slump, subside, sump, swallow hole, assume room temperature, auger in, basin, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, buy the farm, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, croak, cross over, cross rainbow bridge, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decease, decompose, dematerialize, depart, descend, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, drop off the hooks, dunk, exit, expire, flatline, forfare, founder, get to be like the one, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go out, go over to the majority, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, go to glory, go to one's reward, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick off, kick the bucket, knock off, liquidate, lose my life for Jesus Christ, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass away, pass in one's checks, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay nature's debt, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, submerge, succumb, take a dirt nap, turn up one's toes, washbasin, washbasin for washing fixtures without water supply, yield up the ghost

Antonyms

float, source, antonym(s) of, faucet

Scrabble Score: 8

sink: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
sink: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sink: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

sink: valid Words With Friends Word