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Sinking   /sˈɪŋkɪŋ/   Listen
Sinking

noun
1.
A descent as through liquid (especially through water).
2.
A slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength).  "He could not control the sinking of his legs"
3.
A feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension.  Synonym: sinking feeling.  "A sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach"


Sink

verb
(past sank; past part. sunk, obs. sunken; pres. part. sinking)
1.
Fall or descend to a lower place or level.  Synonyms: drop, drop down.
2.
Cause to sink.
3.
Pass into a specified state or condition.  Synonyms: lapse, pass.
4.
Go under,.  Synonyms: go down, go under, settle.  Antonym: float.
5.
Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place.  Synonym: subside.  "She subsided into the chair"
6.
Appear to move downward.  Synonym: dip.  "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
7.
Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly.  Synonyms: fall off, slump.
8.
Fall or sink heavily.  Synonyms: slide down, slump.  "My spirits sank"
9.
Embed deeply.  Synonym: bury.  "He buried his head in her lap"



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"Sinking" Quotes from Famous Books



... sinking in hues the twilight weaves, Upon the golden grain fields of gleaming wheaten sheaves— Upon the emerald pastures and blue of forests deep, When the soft mists of silver o'er the sea doth creep; When 'mid the reeds, the ...
— Russian Lyrics • Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
... applied, and it had become his history. His wife—the second one—had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... now I felt like a ship-broken man with the last plank sinking under him. The cold mysterious dread of my husband was creeping back, and the future of my life with him stood before me with startling vividness. In spite of all my struggling and fighting of the night before I saw myself that very night, the next ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... send for a cab and for a priest; send for the curate of Saint-Sulpice!" answered the old dragoon, sinking down upon the curbstone. ...
— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac
... Tailor verges towards Sansculottism, is it not ominous? The last Divinity of poor mankind dethroning himself; sinking his taper too, flame downmost, like the Genius of Sleep or of Death; admonitory that Tailor time shall be no more!—For, little as one could advise Sumptuary Laws at the present epoch, yet nothing is ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle


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