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sink

The English word “sink” has 34 meanings listed here.

  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.
  13. To drink (especially something alcoholic).
  14. To pay absolutely.
  15. To reduce or extinguish by payment.
  16. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  17. To die.
  18. A basin used for holding water for washing.
  19. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
  20. A sinkhole.
  21. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
  22. A heat sink.
  23. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
  24. A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
  25. Descending motion; descent.
  26. The motion of a sinker pitch.
  27. An object or callback that captures events.
  28. A destination vertex in a transportation network.
  29. A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
  30. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
  31. A depression in a stereotype plate.
  32. A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
  33. An excavation smaller than a shaft.
  34. One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
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