Sinking Synonyms and Antonyms

To cause to penetrate with force
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. thrusting
  2. sticking
  3. stabbing
  4. running
  5. ramming
  6. plunging
  7. driving
  8. digging
Pass into a specified state or condition
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. weakening
  2. failing
  3. fading
  4. lapsing
  5. wasting
  6. waning
  7. languishing
  8. flagging
  9. declining
  10. deteriorating
  11. degenerating
  12. passing
Fall or descend to a lower place or level
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lowering
  2. slumping
  3. engulfing
  4. plunging
  5. immersing
  6. plummeting
  7. dropping
  8. submersing
  9. waning
  10. tumbling
  11. burying
  12. torpedoing
  13. falling
  14. thrusting
  15. subsiding
  16. depressing
  17. swamping
  18. stooping
  19. sloping
  20. overwhelming
  21. sagging
  22. ruining
  23. skidding
  24. merging
  25. humbling
  26. foundering
  27. failing
  28. ebbing
  29. diving
  30. submerging
  31. drenching
  32. draining
  33. dipping
  34. diminishing
  35. deteriorating
  36. destroying
  37. descending
  38. scuttling
  39. degrading
  40. decreasing
  41. declining
  42. debasing
  43. capsizing
Antonyms:
  1. fighting
  2. floating
  3. raising
  4. braving
To bring oneself down to a lower level of behavior
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stooping
  2. lowering
  3. descending
Fall or sink heavily
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slumping
  2. settling
  3. waning
  4. diminishing
  5. lessening
Antonyms:
  1. rising
  2. growing
  3. increasing
Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slumping
  2. listing
  3. subsiding
  4. tilting
  5. falling
  6. dropping
  7. slanting
To become lower in quality, character, or condition
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. worsening
  2. retrograding
  3. deteriorating
  4. descending
  5. degenerating
  6. declining
  7. atrophying
To go beneath the surface or to the bottom of a liquid
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. submersing
  2. submerging
  3. foundering
A feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sinking-feeling
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. settling in
  2. drowning
  3. going-under

Words Related to Sinking

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Sinking Sentence Examples

  • The front end was slowly sinking down as the ground gave way.

  • Sinking into his lap, her arms surrounded his neck.

  • A sinking feeling of panic swept over them, a temporary paralyzing fear.

  • They stood in silence, watching the waves fling the book around before sinking it.

  • Jenn didn't approach, instead sinking into the shadows of one of the many pillars providing support all along the main floor.

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