| sink |  | |
| 1. v. To move or be moved into something.: | |
| 2. v. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. | |
| A stone sinks in water. The sun gradually sank in the west. | |
| 3. v. To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight. | |
| 4. v. To push (something) into something. | |
| The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards. The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole. | |
| 6. v. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive figuratively, of the human heart) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade. | |
| to sink one's reputation | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, slang) To conceal and appropriate. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, slang) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, slang) To reduce or extinguish by payment. | |
| to sink the national debt | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. | |
| 15. n. A basin used for holding water for washing | |
| 16. n. A drain for carrying off wastewater | |
| 17. n. (geology) A sinkhole | |
| 18. n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet | |
| 19. n. A heat sink | |
| 20. n. A place that absorbs resources or energy | |
| 21. n. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch | |
| Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink. | |
| 22. n. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink | |
| 23. n. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network | |
