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- English Word Sink Definition Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
- English Word Sink Definition 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.
- English Word Sink Definition To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- English Word Sink Definition To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
- English Word Sink Definition Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
- English Word Sink Definition To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
- English Word Sink Definition To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
- English Word Sink Definition To conseal and appropriate.
- English Word Sink Definition To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
- English Word Sink Definition To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
- English Word Sink Definition A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
- English Word Sink Definition 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.
- English Word Sink Definition A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
- English Word Sinker Definition One who, or that which, sinks.
- English Word Sinker Definition A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
- English Word Sinker Definition In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
- English Word Sinking Definition of Sink
- English Word Sinking Definition a. & n. from Sink.
- English Word Sinless Definition Free from sin.
- English Word Sinned Definition of Sin
- English Word Sinner Definition One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.
- English Word Sinner Definition To act as a sinner.
- English Word Sinneress Definition A woman who sins.
- English Word Sinnet Definition See Sennit .
- English Word Sinning Definition of Sin
- English Word Sinological Definition Relating to the Chinese language or literature.
- English Word Sinologist Definition A sinologue.
- English Word Sinologue Definition A student of Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, and history.
- English Word Sinology Definition That branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the Chinese, their language, literature, etc.
- English Word Sinoper Definition Sinople.