sink
/ˈsɪŋk/ noun A2- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A sinkhole.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A heat sink.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- Descending motion; descent. · An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.
Plural sinks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The door, as it opened, disclosed a gloomy sky, in which the moon strove vainly to struggle through a sea of clouds that covered her with billows of vapor which she illumined for an instant, only to sink into obscurity.
Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the track.
The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm.
At this rate the flat would fill and sink long before it could drift to the lower headland.
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