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sink
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in, go under |
| Synonyms: | bore, bring down, capsize, cast down, cave in, couch, decline, demit, depress, descend, dig, dip, disappear, drill, drive, droop, drop, drown, ebb, engulf, excavate, fall, flounder, force down, founder, go down, go to the bottom, immerse, lay, let down, lower, overturn, overwhelm, plummet, plunge, put down, ram, regress, run, sag, scuttle, set, settle, shipwreck, slope, slump, stab, stick, stoop, submerge, subside, swamp, thrust, tip over, touch bottom, wreck |
| Antonyms: | float, rise |
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| Main Entry: | sink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deteriorate |
| Synonyms: | decay, decline, decrease, degenerate, depreciate, descend, die, diminish, disimprove, disintegrate, dwindle, fade, fail, flag, go downhill, lessen, retrograde, rot, spoil, waste, weaken, worsen |
| Antonyms: | increase, rise, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | sink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be humble or humbled |
| Synonyms: | abase, be reduced to, bemean, cast down, debase, degrade, demean, humiliate, lower, stoop, succumb |
| Antonyms: | brave, fight |
| Main Entry: | sinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | settling in |
| Synonyms: | dropping, drowning, engulfing, fading, falling, immersing, submerging |
| Main Entry: | bog down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stick; become stuck |
| Synonyms: | decelerate, delay, detain, halt, hang up, impede, retard, set back, sink, slacken, slow down, slow up, stall |
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drill hole |
| Synonyms: | burrow, gouge out, mine, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pit, prick, punch, puncture, ream, riddle, sink, tunnel |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plant in ground |
| Synonyms: | drive in, embed, engulf, implant, sink, submerge |
| Antonyms: | dig out |
| Main Entry: | cancel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call off; erase |
| Synonyms: | X-out, abolish, abort, abrogate, annul, ax, black out, blot out, break, break off, countermand, cross out, cut, deface, delete, destroy, do away with, do in, efface, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, finish off, go back on one's word, kill, obliterate, off*, omit, quash, remove, render invalid, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, rub out, scratch out, scrub, sink*, smash, squash, stamp across, strike out, torpedo, total*, trash*, trim*, undo, wash out, wipe out, wipe slate clean, zap |
| Antonyms: | allow, approve, arrange, establish, permit, uphold |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved, depressed |
| Synonyms: | biconcave, cupped, dented, dimpled, dipped, excavated, hollow, hollowed, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, indented, round, rounded, sagging, scooped, sinking, sunken |
| Antonyms: | convex, distended |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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