English Explanatory Dictionary

sink

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To move or be moved into something.
  2. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
  3. To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
  4. To push (something) into something.
  5. To make by digging or delving.
  6. To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
  7. To diminish or be diminished.
  8. To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
  9. To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
  10. To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
  11. To conceal and appropriate.
  12. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
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. The motion of a sinker pitch.
  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.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪŋk/ En-uk-sink.ogg En-us-sink.ogg /ˈsiŋk/ /zɪŋk/

Word forms

sink sinks sinking sank sunk sunken

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 descend founder go down dip dunk submerge debase disparage humble abase bring down to size cut down to size defame degrade demean demote depress discredit disgrace dishonour downgrade embase give a bad name humiliate knock down to size put someone in their place reduce relegate sink slur trim down to size whittle down to size brush off misregard unheed discount disregard dissemble despise ignore misheed neglect pass pass by pay no heed put aside set at nought shrug off slough take no notice of tune out unmind down imbibe pound drink hydrate wet one's whistle wet one's beak

Antonyms

antonym(s) of faucet

Related words

countersink everything but the kitchen sink

Derived words

countersink like a rat from a sinking ship loose lips sink ships resink sinkable sinkage sinkant sinkbox sinker sinkful sink in sinking fund sinking head sinking pump sinking ship sink like a stone sink one's teeth in into sink or swim sinky slop sink unsinkability unsinkable antisink apron sink behavioral sink Belfast sink butler's sink carbon sink Carson Sink dry sink farmhouse sink heavy sink kitchen sink laundry sink London sink pseudosink shoot one in the sink sink estate sink function sink hole sinkhouse sinkless sinklike sink of iniquity sinkproof sinkroom sink tidy sink trap sinkward sinkware sinkwater time sink utility sink vessel sink

Translations

Albanian: fundos Armenian: սուզել Armenian: խորտակել Azerbaijani: batırmaq Bashkir: батырыу Belarusian: тапіць Belarusian: патапіць Belarusian: утапіць Bulgarian: потопявам Catalan: enfonsar Czech: potopit Danish: sænke Dutch: tot zinken brengen Esperanto: alfundigi Estonian: uputama Faroese: søkkja Finnish: upottaa French: couler Galician: afundir Galician: afondar Galician: alagar Georgian: დაძირვა Georgian: ჩაძირვა German: senken Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌵𐌰𐌽 Greek: βυθίζω Greek: ποντίζω Ancient Greek: βυθίζω Hungarian: elsüllyeszt Icelandic: sökkva Ingrian: upottaa Ingrian: vajottaa Italian: affondare Italian: inabissare Italian: colare a picco Japanese: 沈める Khmer: បញ្ចុះ Khmer: បំផ្លិច Khmer: ប្លេង Khmer: ពន្លង់ Khmer: ពន្លិច Khmer: លិច Khmer: សំរុត Latin: mergo Latin: mersum Māori: whakatotohu Norwegian: senke Norwegian Bokmål: senke Polish: zatapiać Polish: zatopić Portuguese: afundar Russian: топи́ть Russian: потопи́ть Spanish: hundir Swedish: sänka Thai: จม Ukrainian: затопи́ти Vietnamese: chìm
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