Sinks Synonyms and Antonyms

To cause to penetrate with force
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. thrusts
  2. sticks
  3. stabs
  4. runs
  5. rams
  6. plunges
  7. drives
  8. digs
To weaken
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. weakens
  2. fails
  3. fades
  4. wastes
  5. wanes
  6. languishes
  7. flags
  8. declines
  9. deteriorates
  10. degenerates
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Fall or descend to a lower place or level
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. subsides
  2. stoops
  3. drops
  4. rots
  5. lowers
  6. degenerates
  7. spoils
  8. descends
Antonyms:
  1. rises
  2. strengthens
  3. increases
  4. recovers
  5. improves
To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. totals
  2. wrecks
  3. wracks
  4. undoes
  5. torpedos
  6. spoils
  7. smashes
  8. ruins
  9. finishes
  10. destroys
  11. demolishes
  12. bankrupts
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To undergo moral deterioration
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slips
  2. falls
Fall or sink heavily
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slumps
  2. wanes
  3. settles
  4. diminishes
  5. lessens
Antonyms:
  1. rises
  2. grows
  3. increases
To incline
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. submerses
  2. lists
  3. submerges
  4. tilts
  5. slants
  6. founders
To become lower in quality, character, or condition
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. worsens
  2. retrogrades
  3. deteriorates
  4. descends
  5. degenerates
  6. declines
  7. atrophies
To go from a more erect posture to a less erect posture
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slumps
  2. falls
  3. drops
(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cesspits
  2. cloacae
  3. pits
  4. cesspools
  5. armpits
  6. gutters
  7. drains
Antonyms:
  1. sources

Words Related to Sinks

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Sinks Sentence Examples

  • No doubt large numbers are devoured by insectivorous birds, mammals and reptiles, but the mortality due to them and other foes sinks into insignificance beside that caused by the persecution of hymenopterous insects of the families Ichneumonidae and Pompilidae, especially of the latter, many species of which systematically ransack the country for spiders wherewith to feed their young in the breeding season.

  • In some parts it rises into irregular uplands and elevated plains, interspersed with detached rocks of granite; in others it sinks into marshy lowlands, which frequently remain under water during the rainy season.

  • The water sinks below the surface and continues to flow along the sea bottom back towards the equator.

  • Thereafter it broadens out and becomes the high table-land of Galilee, Samaria and Judaea, and gradually sinks into the plateau of north Sinai.

  • This surface drifting water is cold and as it enters into intermediate zones it remains colder than the water in situ there and is therefore denser; it sinks below the surface and continues to flow along the bottom either back to the polar regions or towards the equator.

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