Sink synonyms and antonyms
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Part of speech:
To run or move with short hurried movements; scurry.
(--- Theology) To lose primordial innocence and happiness. Used of humanity as a result of the Fall.
To slide sideways while moving because of loss of traction:
To subside is to lessen, to become inactive or to sink to lower levels.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
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To sink or plunge beneath the surface of water, etc.
To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process:
Drench is defined as to soak, or to make an animal swallow a liquid medicine.
To ebb means to move out further into the sea and further from land or to gradually decline or lessen.
To swallow up or overwhelm by or as if by overflowing and enclosing:
To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example):
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To move or walk:
To stoop is to bend over, or to do something that is demeaning or below your status.
To extend, as in growth
To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity:
fight (antonym)
To gain by struggle
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rise (antonym)
To cause to rise:
improve (antonym)
To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better:
recover (antonym)
(Intransitive) To get better, regain one's health.
The definition of a cesspool is a gross, disgusting or corrupt place, or an underground storage for sewage from sinks and toilets.
To cause to sink, sense 1
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(Sports) To fall or roll into a basket or hole. Used of a ball.
The definition of immerse is to dip or put something completely into a liquid, or to totally absorb yourself in a particular activity.
(Music) To lower the pitch of
(Music) To reduce (a perfect or minor interval) by a semitone.
To pull down
To bring or reduce to ruin
To fall or sink heavily; collapse:
strengthen (antonym)
To make strong or increase the strength of.
grow (antonym)
To allow (something) to develop or increase by a natural process:
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ascend (antonym)
To go or move upward; rise:
(Colloquial) To pay.
To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
To waste away or fail to develop
To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate:
To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value:
Retrograde is to move backwards, or to decline to a prior worse condition.
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To make or become worse.
To get (into or out of clothes) quickly
To force into bankruptcy.
cross up
To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of
To put an end to; do away with
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Shatter is defined as to smash or break into many pieces.
(Figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
To reverse the doing of (something accomplished); do away with; cancel; annul
To work as a wrecker
(Intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
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To fall head down through the air.
To perform a nosedive.
To pitch headlong; fall:
To fade is defined as to become less bright, to grow more faint, less popular, or less strong, or to begin to wither away and disappear.
(Often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
(Intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness. [from 14th c.]
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To use up or spend without real need, gain, or purpose; squander
To break up, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example), as with a shovel, spade, or snout, or with claws, paws or hands.
To drive a blow, ball, missile, etc.
Ram is defined as to drive or force something into something else.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something.
Any shallow, rounded hollow or depression, often containing water, as a pond
The quality or condition of being concave
A geographic area, such as a sinkhole or basin, that is lower than its surroundings.
A slight hollow
A cavity, gap, or space:
(Bot.) A tiny depression in a plant cell wall
A natural depression in a land surface formed by the dissolution and collapse of a cavern roof. Sinkholes are roughly funnel-shaped and on the order of tens of meters in size. They generally occur in limestone regions and are connected to subteranean passages.
A pit for garbage, excrement, etc.
An armpit is defined as the body part underneath the area where the arm meets the shoulder.
go-to-pot
go-to-seed
go-to-the-dogs
go bad (or wrong)
put-the-kibosh-on
take a sudden downtrend (or downturn)
hit-the-skids
convex (related)
Curving outward, like the outer boundary of a circle or sphere.
right (related)
A legal or moral entitlement.
To dispose of (a corpse) ritualistically by means other than interment or cremation.
heave (related)
melt (related)
choke (related)
sinking (related)
water-washed (related)
explode (related)
To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
The amount a pan will hold
The capacity or contents of a bowl
In some invertebrates, a similar cavity serving as an excretory, respiratory, and reproductive duct
To bend or sag gradually:
(Statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
go to the bottom
To go downward
be submerged
To go downward
go to Davy Jones's locker
To go downward
hit a slump
To go downward
touch bottom
To go downward
go down with the ship
To go downward
To overcome emotionally
To sink (a boat) by filling with water
To reduce
force down
To cause to sink, sense 1
send to Davy Jones's locker
To cause to sink, sense 1
To have or go in a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal; slope.
To direct (a discussion, policy, etc.) so as to favor a particular opinion or side
Rot is defined as to decay or decompose.
raise (antonym)
To breed and care for to maturity:
lean (related)
(Informal) To exert pressure:
decay (related)
To lose strength, soundness, health, beauty, prosperity, etc. gradually; waste away; deteriorate
An area of wet, spongy ground consisting mainly of decayed or decaying peat moss (sphagnum) and other vegetation. Bogs form as the dead vegetation sinks to the bottom of a lake or pond, where it decays slowly to form peat. Peat bogs are important to global ecology, since the undecayed peat moss stores large amounts of carbon that would otherwise be released back into the atmosphere. Global warming may accelerate decay in peat bogs and release more carbon dioxide, which in turn may cause further warming.
To debase is defined as to cheapen, or make lower in value or quality.
(Geol.) To lower (a land surface) by erosion
To move in response to the force of gravity.
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To lose strength or power
go-downhill
better (related)
To a greater extent or degree:
help (related)
To act as a waiter, clerk, servant, etc.
strong (related)
In a strong manner; greatly, severely, vigorously, etc.
clean (related)
Removal of dirt.
A hole at the lowest point of a mine shaft into which water is drained in order to be pumped out.
(Intransitive) To go successfully through (an examination, trail, test, etc).
(Law) To pass to another proprietor by reason of negligence or death
fall or descend to a lower place or level
slide-down
fall or sink heavily
source (antonym)
A person or thing from which something comes into being or is derived or obtained:
The definition of a gutter is a narrow channel that directs and carries water to a specific location.
soak (related)
To soak is slang for to overcharge someone.
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