[The Athenians] fell upon the wings and sank a
single ship. --Jowett
(Thucyd.).
2. Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade;
hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping;
as, to sink one's reputation.
I raise of sink, imprison or set free. --Prior.
If I have a conscience, let it sink me. --Shak.
Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy
father more than all his years. --Rowe.
3. To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting,
etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
4. To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
You sunk the river repeated draughts. --Addison.
5. To conseal and appropriate. [Slang]
If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you
happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take
up the goods on account. --Swift.
6. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
A courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths.
--Robertson.
7. To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the
national debt.
I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2.
2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the
surface; to penetrate.
The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii.
49.
3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to
enter completely.
Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke
ix. 44.
4. 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.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak.
He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix.
24.
Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer.
5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become
diminished in volume or in apparent height.
The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison.
Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay;
decrease; lessen.
2. 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.
3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and
are lost; -- called also {sink hole}. [U. S.]
{Sink hole}.
(a) The opening to a sink drain.
(b) A cesspool.
(c) Same as {Sink}, n., 3.