sink
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Simple pronunciation
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
1. A basin used for holding water for washing.
2. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
3. A sinkhole.
4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
5. A heat sink.
6. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
7. The motion of a sinker pitch.
"Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink."
8. An object or callback that captures events; event sink
9. A destination vertex in a transportation network
10. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
11. A depression in a stereotype plate.
12. A stage trap-door for shifting scenery.
13. An excavation less than a shaft.
14. (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation
Synonyms
1. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
2. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
3. To conceal and appropriate.
4. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
5. To pay absolutely.
"I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project."
6. To reduce or extinguish by payment.
"to sink the national debt"
7. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
8. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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