Word Finder - sinking

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(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.

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(heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.

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To conceal and appropriate.

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To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

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To pay absolutely.

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I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.

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To reduce or extinguish by payment.

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to sink the national debt

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To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

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To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

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The process by which something sinks.

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I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.

The front end was slowly sinking down as the ground gave way.

Sinking into his lap, her arms surrounded his neck.

A sinking feeling of panic swept over them, a temporary paralyzing fear.

They stood in silence, watching the waves fling the book around before sinking it.

A sinking feeling filled Brady.

Jenn didn't approach, instead sinking into the shadows of one of the many pillars providing support all along the main floor.

It was of Darkyn's fangs sinking into the delicate skin of her neck.

With a sinking heart, he realized he.d lost the Jade who.d been his friend and lover for a few hundred years.

While the on premise death of Edith Shipton remained on their minds, it was sinking to a lower level of importance.

Her heart sinking, she looked in the direction of her home.

That ship is sinking fast, isn't it?

This will prevent your deck from sinking over time.

I looked up with sinking heart to see a FedEx driver at the front door looking at me quizzically.

With a sinking feeling, Dusty understood Sofi's concern better.

Sinking to the window seat, she watched him read the paper.

With a sinking feeling, he realized he'd guessed right.

He laid down the seven of hearts, on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written "800 rubles" in clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was handed him, smiled at Dolokhov's words, and with a sinking heart, waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dolokhov's hands which held the pack.

With a sinking heart he watched Dolokhov's hands and thought, "Now then, make haste and let me have this card and I'll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denisov, Natasha, and Sonya, and will certainly never touch a card again."

I shall die! she muttered, wrenching herself from Marya Dmitrievna's hands with a vicious effort and sinking down again into her former position.

They both saw that he was sinking slowly and quietly, deeper and deeper, away from them, and they both knew that this had to be so and that it was right.

A sinking man who clutches at another and drowns him; or a hungry mother exhausted by feeding her baby, who steals some food; or a man trained to discipline who on duty at the word of command kills a defenseless man-- seem less guilty, that is, less free and more subject to the law of necessity, to one who knows the circumstances in which these people were placed, and more free to one who does not know that the man was himself drowning, that the mother was hungry, that the soldier was in the ranks, and so on.

This is a movie based on the true story of the Titanic's sinking.

Her self-esteem was slowly sinking into a bottomless pit.

With a sinking stomach, Jenn admitted she had less than a day of influence left on the Black God.

Darian moved closer, gut sinking.

Sofi waved him away before sinking into the bed again and pulling the covers up.

Darian peeked into one bedroom then the other, a sense of doom sinking into his stomach.

He placed his weapons on a pillow and tossed himself into the bed, at once sinking into the soft comfort.

He couldn't control the surge of adrenaline he experienced whenever he thought of sinking his teeth into his father's neck and draining his life from him, the way his father drained his mother's life.

Dread sinking into her stomach, Jessi obeyed, the other thugs trailing her.

With a sinking feeling, Jessi realized her world was going to crash down on her this weekend.

I know a sinking ship when I see one.

The authorized colonial loans, omitting Algeria and Tunisia, during the period 1884f 904 amounted to 19,200,000, the sums paid for interest and sinking funds on loans varying from 600,000 to 800,000 a year.

Fresh water, rising and falling with the tide, is found in certain large caverns in Lifu, and by sinking to the sea-level a supply may be obtained in any part of the island.

Even if he refloated the ship he had to pay a fine of half its value for sinking it.

Whilst it is being paid out the portion between the surface of the water and the bottom of the sea lies along a straight line, the component of the weight at right angles to its length being supported by the frictional resistance to sinking in the water.

The factors Af (u-v cos i) and Bf (v sin i) give the frictional resistance to sinking, per unit length of the cable, in the direction of the length and transverse to the length respectively.

The annual expenses of the board include £35,000 for cable repairs and reserve and a fixed payment to the National Debt Commissioners of £77,544 as sinking fund to amortise capital expenditure in fifty years.

It consists in sinking a bore-hole, after the manner of a petroleum well, and letting in four pipes centrally arranged, the outer pipe being 10 in.

It awakened fresh possibilities - successful combination against a common foe, the sinking of petty rivalries, the chance of gaining favour by a neutrality which was scarcely benevolent.

Some prominent Jews fled from Jerusalem - as from a sinking ship - to join him and carried the news to the emperor.

In 1909 the taxable real estate and personal property was valued at $108,663,716, and the city had no floating debt; on the 1st of February 1910, there were 810,706,318 worth of bonds outstanding, and the sinking fund was 82,011,857.

It is clear that, if we start from the condition of full eversion of the tube and watch the process of introversion, we shall find that the pleurecbolic variety is introverted by the apex of the tube sinking inwards; it may be called acrembolic, whilst conversely the acrecbolic tubes are pleurembolic. Further, it is obvious enough that the process either of introversion or of eversion of the tube may be arrested at any point, by the development of fibres connecting the wall of the introverted tube with the wall of the body, or with an axial structure such as the oesophagus; on the other hand, the range of movement of the tubular introvert may be unlimited or complete.

Then, just as it appears to have been sinking into oblivion among the people, the clergy themselves gave it the character of a specific religious festival.

A municipal civil service commission of three members (holding office for three years) is chosen by the president of the board of education, the president of the city council, and the president of the board of sinking fund commissioners; the pay (if any) of these commissioners is set by each city.

The revenues of the state are classified into four funds; the general revenue fund, the sinking fund, the state common school fund and the university fund.

A special tax is levied for the benefit of the sinking fund - one-tenth of a mill in 1909.

To discourage the sinking of wells on land immediately adjoining productive territory, it has been usual to drill along the borders of the land as far as practicable, in order to first obtain the oil which might otherwise be raised by others; and on account of the small area often controlled by the operator, the number of wells drilled has frequently been far in excess of the number which might reasonably be sunk.

The temperature is rather remarkable, there being an intermediate cold layer between 25 and 50 fathoms. This is due to the sinking of the cold surface water (which in winter reaches freezing-point) on to the top of the denser more saline water of the greater depths.

Four-fifths of the net product of the revenues, after deduction of the first charge of £T590,000, was to be applied.to the service of the interest on the new reduced debt, and provided that the four-fifths were sufficient to allow the distribution of 1% interest, one-fifth was to be devoted to sinking fund; but this latter fifth was to be reduced, if necessary, by an amount sufficient to maintain the rate of interest at i %.