sunk¹ /sungk/, sunken /sungˈkn/ see sink

sunk² /sungk/ (Scot)

1. A turf seat
2. A pad
3. A bank
4. An overweight person

sunkˈie noun

A little stool

sink /singk/

1. To become submerged, wholly or partly
2. To subside
3. To fall slowly
4. To go down passively
5. To pass to a lower level or state
6. To penetrate or be absorbed
7. To slope away, dip
8. To diminish
9. To collapse
10. To be or become withdrawn inwards

1. To cause or allow to sink
2. To complete successfully (a putt or shot) by causing the ball to run into the hole (golf)
3. To cause (a ball) to fall into a pocket (snooker, etc)
4. To suppress
5. To degrade
6. To conceal
7. To appropriate surreptitiously
8. To excavate
9. To let in, insert
10. To abandon
11. To abolish
12. To merge
13. To pay (a debt)
14. To lose under the horizon
15. To invest, esp unprofitably or beyond easy recovery
16. To damn or ruin (esp in imprecation)
17. To drink quickly (informal)

1. A kitchen or scullery basin with a drain, for washing dishes, etc
2. A receptacle or drain for filth or dirty water
3. A place where things are engulfed or where foul things gather
4. A cesspool
5. A depression in a surface
6. An area without surface drainage
7. A swallow hole (geology)
8. A shaft
9. A natural or artificial means of absorbing or discharging heat, fluid, etc (physics, etc)

Populated by individuals who are not wanted elsewhere, as in a sink school

sinkˈable adjective

sinkˈage noun

1. The process of sinking
2. Amount of sinking
3. A sunken area or depression
4. Shrinkage

sinkˈer noun

1. A person who sinks
2. A weight for sinking anything, such as a fishing-line
3. A doughnut (US inf)
4. A mistletoe root

sinkˈing noun and adjective

sinkˈy adjective

Yielding underfoot

sinkˈhole noun

1. A hole for filth
2. A swallow hole (N American)

sinking fund noun

A fund formed by setting aside income to accumulate at interest to pay off debt

sink unit noun

A fitting consisting of sink and draining board, with cupboards, etc underneath

sink in

1. To be absorbed
2. To be understood

• heathenry
• heathens
• heather
• heather ale
• heather bell
• heather bells
• heather-bleat
• heather-bleater
• heather-bleaters
• heather-bleats
• heather-bluiter
• heather-blutter
• heatherier
• heatheriest
• heather mixture
• heather mixtures
• heathers
• heathery
• heath-fowl
• heath-hen
• heath-hens
• heathier
• heathiest
• heath-poult
• heath-poults