Sink

·vt To conseal and appropriate.

II. Sink ·noun A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

III. Sink ·vt To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.

IV. Sink ·vt To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to Waste.

V. Sink ·vi Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.

VI. Sink ·vt To keep out of sight; to Suppress; to Ignore.

VII. Sink ·noun A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost;

— called also sink hole.

VIII. Sink ·vt To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.

IX. Sink ·vi To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to Penetrate.

X. Sink ·vt To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, ·etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.

XI. Sink ·vi To decrease in volume, as a river; to Subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

XII. Sink ·noun 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.

XIII. Sink ·add. ·noun The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River.

XIV. Sink ·vt Figuratively: To cause to decline; to Depress; to Degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.

XV. Sink ·vi To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to Subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.

XVI. Sink ·vi 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.