- sink
- v1. fall, drop, descend, go down; hang heavily, swag; subside, recede, retrocede, ebb; fall back, lapse, relapse; slope, dip, slant, lean, list, cant, tilt, incline.2. settle, precipitate, gravitate, hit bottom; become submerged, capsize, drown, founder; plunge, immerse, engulf, souse, douse, inundate, submerge, submerse, vail, drown; Naut. scuttle.3. collapse, fall in, cave in, become sunken or concave; slump, fall down, slip; feint, swoon; despond, despair.4. decline, fail, weaken, languish; droop, sag, flag, wither, wilt; deteriorate, worsen, regress, retrogress, backslide, revert; degenerate, go downhill, All Sl. go to seed, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids.5. reduce, lower, depress; devaluate, depreciate, degrade, debase, abase; decrease, diminish, lessen, drop off, swindle, wane.6. abate, moderate, alleviate; soften, tone down, temper, modulate, quiet, turn down.7. put down, bury, mire, plant, lay, drive; hollow out, dig, bore, drill, excavate.8. destroy, ruin, cause the downfall of, be the ruin of; devastate, demolish, vanquish, overcome; Sl. put the skids under, seal the doom of; pauperize, bankrupt, impoverish, Sl. break.9.(usu. in reference to a sum of money) invest, risk, venture, put down, put out; lose, Sl. blow, be out, be set back; go bankrupt, go under, go broke.10.Usu. sink in or into enter, pierce, penetrate, reach, permeate; become known or understood, become engrossed or absorbed.11. suppress, conceal, hide, mask, disguise; ignore, slight, refuse to notice, take no note or heed of; omit, drop, dismiss, cast aside, Inf. give a miss, Inf. give a go-by, turn one's back on, not bother with.n12. basin, washbasin, washbowl, commode, Eccles. piscina; water receptacle, tub, washtub.13. swamp, marsh, Brit. fen, bog; sinkhole, swallow hole, swallow, cesspool, polluted pond; hole, dip, cavity, depression, hollow, crater.14. den of iniquity, hellhole, Inf. dive, Sl. joint; tenderloin, Alsatia; red light district, Storyville, Combat Zone; skio row, the Bowery.15. drain, sewer, gutter, cloaca; ditch, trench, conduit, culvert; channel, race, waterway, watercourse.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.