sink in English

noun

1

a fixed basin with a water supply and a drain.

A utility room off the kitchen has its own sink unit along with built-in worktops and storage cupboards.

synonyms: basin, wash basin, lavabo

2

a pool or marsh in which a river's water disappears by evaporation or percolation.

Once again, however, rumours of caves higher on the hillside and far off river sinks abound.

3

a place of vice or corruption.

moralizers complain that the Net is simply a festering sink of iniquity

verb

1

go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged.

he saw the coffin sink below the surface of the waves

synonyms: become submerged, be engulfed, go down, drop, fall, descend, descend, drop, go down/downward

2

descend; drop.

Sam felt the ground sinking beneath his feet

synonyms: set, go down/downward

3

gradually decrease or decline in value, amount, quality, or intensity.

their output sank to a third of the prewar figure

synonyms: fall, drop, become/get quieter, become/get softer

4

insert beneath a surface by digging or hollowing out.

rails attached with screws sunk below the surface of the wood

synonyms: embed, insert, drive, plant

noun

basin, wash basin, lavabo
sump, cesspool, cesspit
swallow hole, sinkhole

verb

become submerged, founder, scuttle, destroy, immerse, descend, set, lower oneself, fall, stoop, deteriorate, embed, dig, invest, subside, drop, go down, slide down, bury, fall off, lapse, dip
become submerged, be engulfed, go down, drop, fall, descend
founder, go under, submerge
scuttle, send to the bottom, scupper
destroy, ruin, wreck, put an end to, demolish, smash, shatter, dash, put the kibosh on, put paid to, scupper, bring to naught
immerse, submerge, plunge, lose, bury
descend, drop, go down/downward
set, go down/downward
lower oneself, flop, collapse, fall, drop down, slump, plunk oneself
fall, drop, become/get quieter, become/get softer
stoop, lower oneself, descend
deteriorate, decline, fade, grow weak, flag, waste away, be at death's door, be on one's deathbed, be slipping away, go downhill, be on one's last legs, be giving up the ghost
embed, insert, drive, plant
dig, excavate, bore, drill
invest, venture, risk
subside
drop, drop down
go down, go under, settle
slide down, slump
bury
fall off, slump
lapse, pass
dip

Use "sink" in a sentence

1. Sink it, sink it!

2. Bathroom sink.

3. Audience: Sink, toilet!

4. Source or Sink shape

5. A heat sink and a cooling structure using the heat sink are disclosed.

6. Please scrub the sink.

7. It's sink or swim.

8. A hands-free sink or automatically operated sink shall be provided in the Anteroom

9. Unlike a freestanding sink, a Bathroom vanity holds a sink bowl in the countertop, although you can also mount a sink on top the vanity cabinet.

10. He get under the sink?

11. Dust accumulation resistant heat sink

12. How low can you sink?

13. A “LOW sink of debauchery.”

14. Dudley tried to sink into obscurity.

15. Stainless steel sink Product Code : Belss

16. He decided to scour the sink.

17. Sink or swim, I will try.

18. This time he'll sink or swim.

19. Now it was sink or swim.

20. Backpedaling Molina’s cycle helps sink Sox

21. It was a sink of iniquity.

22. A case of sink or swim.

23. * Why did Peter begin to sink?

24. RM: It's a kitchen sink flag.

25. It is a sink of crime.

26. In the kitchen, under the sink.

27. Wood does not sink in water.

28. Aircraft sink with integrated waste disposal function

29. It must also sink into your heart.

30. Moments later, though, Peter starts to sink.

31. The vessel flooded and began to sink.

32. It was very much sink or swim.

33. I had a friend plumb his sink.

34. This is a sink or swim situation.

35. How did you achieve the heat sink?

36. I can sink my teeth into this."

37. I refuse to sink to their level .

38. The sink was full of dirty plates.

39. Many sands will sink a ship. 

40. Marie stood at the sink, peeling potatoes .

41. " Dishes in the sink, toilet seat up. "

42. Maybe I shouldeave you in the sink.

43. You still wrestling with that kitchen sink?

44. I can sink my teeth into this. "

45. The metal in the sink is conductive.

46. 12 The pen belongs under the sink.

47. Our boat will sink unless we bail .

48. The sink and the faucet are spotless.

49. She filled the sink with hot water.

50. Small Bathroom vanities, like single-sink vanities, are great for guest Bathrooms while double-sink vanities are popular for master Bathrooms