'Sinking' definitions:
Definition of 'sinking'
From: WordNet
noun
A descent as through liquid (especially through water); "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic"
noun
A slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength); "after several hours of sinking an unexpected rally rescued the market"; "he could not control the sinking of his legs"
noun
A feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension; "with a sinking heart"; "a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach" [syn: sinking, sinking feeling]
Definition of 'Sinking'
From: GCIDE
- Sink \Sink\ (s[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. Sunk (s[u^][ng]k), or (Sank (s[a^][ng]k)); p. p. Sunk (obs. Sunken, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. Sinking.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. s["o]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. Silt.]
- 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. [1913 Webster]
- I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. [1913 Webster]
- The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. [1913 Webster]
- Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. [1913 Webster]
- I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24. [1913 Webster]
- Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. [1913 Webster]
- The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sinking'
From: GCIDE
- Sinking \Sink"ing\, a. & n. from Sink. [1913 Webster]
- Sinking fund. See under Fund.
- Sinking head (Founding), a riser from which the mold is fed as the casting shrinks. See Riser, n., 4.
- Sinking pump, a pump which can be lowered in a well or a mine shaft as the level of the water sinks. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sinking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- aging,
- angular motion,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- axial,
- axial motion,
- back,
- back-flowing,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward,
- backward motion,
- bad,
- baptism,
- Brownian movement,
- burial,
- career,
- climbing,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- concavity,
- course,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- current,
- de-escalation,
- debasement,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declining,
- declivitous,
- decurrent,
- deepening,
- degenerate,
- degradation,
- dejected,
- demotion,
- depressed,
- depression,
- descendant,
- descending,
- descent,
- desolate,
- despaired of,
- despairing,
- deteriorating,
- detrusion,
- digging,
- diminishing,
- diminution,
- dip,
- dipping,
- disintegrating,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- done for,
- doting,
- dousing,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- down-trending,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- downward motion,
- draining,
- drift,
- driftage,
- drifting,
- drilling,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- duck,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- engulfment,
- excavation,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- flight,
- flow,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- flux,
- flying,
- forlorn,
- forward motion,
- fragmenting,
- fretful,
- getting on,
- given up,
- going,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- gyrational,
- gyratory,
- hauling down,
- heavy-laden,
- hollowness,
- hopeless,
- immergence,
- immersion,
- in articulo mortis,
- in extremis,
- incapable of life,
- inundation,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- languishing,
- low,
- lowering,
- marcescent,
- mining,
- miserable,
- moribund,
- mounting,
- mournful,
- near death,
- nervous,
- nonviable,
- oblique motion,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- passage,
- passing,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- probing,
- progress,
- progressive,
- queasy,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- receding,
- reduction,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- refluent,
- reflux,
- regression,
- regressive,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogression,
- retrogressive,
- rising,
- rotary,
- rotational,
- rotatory,
- run,
- running,
- rush,
- rushing,
- sagging,
- senescent,
- set,
- setting,
- shaky,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sideward,
- sideward motion,
- sinkage,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- slumping,
- soaring,
- souse,
- sousing,
- sternway,
- stream,
- streaming,
- stricken,
- submergence,
- submerging,
- submersion,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tense,
- terminal,
- thrusting under,
- tottering,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- tumbledown,
- tunneling,
- uneasy,
- unquiet,
- up-trending,
- upward,
- upward motion,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- woeful,
- worsening