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.
{Sinking fund}. See under {Fund}.
{Sinking head} (Founding), a riser from which the mold is fed
as the casting shrinks. See {Riser}, n., 4.
{Sinking pump}, a pump which can be lowered in a well or a
mine shaft as the level of the water sinks.