What is the meaning of SINK. Phrases containing SINK
See meanings and uses of SINK!Slangs & AI meanings
Shout Europe at the sink is American slang for to vomit
Kitchen sink is London Cockney rhyming slang for a Chinese person (chink). Kitchen sink is London Cockney rhyming slang for stink.
Sinker is American slang for a dollar. Sinker is old slang for a doughnut.
a hook weighted with a lead half for quick sinking in cod fishing
Sink is slang for to drink down.Sink is slang for to conceal and appropriate.
a hook with lead around it for quick sinking; a dapper
Sing to the sink is American slang for to vomit
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v. t.
To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
v. i.
To decline; to fail; to sink.
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A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
v. t.
To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
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A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
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A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.
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A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
v. t.
To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
v. i.
To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
v. t.
Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
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A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
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One who, or that which, sinks.
v. t.
To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
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State of sinking or bending; sagging.
v. t.
To sink from a swollen state; to subside.
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