To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
To conseal and appropriate.
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; - called also sink hole.
The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River.
A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
The quantity contained in a basin.
A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; - especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.
