Crossword clues for sank
sank
- Went under, like the Titanic
- Went to bed?
- Took on too much water
- Pocketed, as a billiard ball
- Made, as a jump shot
- Lost altitude
- Hit bottom
- Dropped to the bottom of the lake
- Dropped like an anchor
- Descended gradually
- What the Lusitania did
- Went to the ocean's bottom
- Went to the bottom of the ocean
- Went down in the ocean
- Wasn't buoyant
- Visited Davy Jones' locker, in a way
- Suffered the Titanic's fate
- Suffered the same fate as the Titanic
- Succumbed to quicksand
- Scored, as a free throw
- Putted into the hole
- Modest Mouse "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even ___"
- Made, as pool shots
- Made, as a free throw
- Made like the Titanic
- Knocked in a pocket, in pool
- Immortal "Suns That ___ Below"
- Headed to bed?
- Fell, as feelings
- Fell underwater
- Fell to the seabed
- Fell to the bottom of the sea
- Fell to the bottom
- Failed to float
- Ended up on the ocean floor
- Dropped, as spirits
- Dropped to the bottom of a lake, say
- Dropped sharply
- Did well at Battleship
- Destroyed destroyers
- Defeated, in Battleships
- Brought to utter ruin
- Bottomed, in a way
- Became a shipwreck, perhaps
- "Sighted sub, ___ same."
- "My heart ___ ..."
- Went to the bottom of the tub, say
- Scuttled
- Slumped
- Dropped, maybe
- Sent to the bottom
- Went underwater
- Dropped in the drink
- Torpedoed
- Was the ruin of
- Blasted a hole in
- Collapsed
- Lost buoyancy
- Put in the hole
- Lost seaworthiness
- Completed, as a putt
- Went bankrupt
- Dipped
- Brought to ruin
- Set, as the sun
- Plummeted
- Sent to the ocean floor
- Made, as a putt
- Put in the cup, as a golf ball
- What the Titanic did, famously
- Didn't float
- Fell prey to quicksand
- "Sighted sub, ___ same": Mason
- Fell gradually
- Submerged
- Putted perfectly
- Settled gradually
- Declined
- Went like the Titanic
- Visited Davy Jones's locker
- Foundered
- Went down, like a ship
- Holed, as a putt
- Registered, with "in"
- Went down like a rock
- Hit the bottom of the barrel
- Went down like a stone
- Went down like a cement block
- Pocketed, as a pool ball
- Behaved like a lead balloon?
- Became submerged
- What Atlantis did, presumably
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sank \Sank\ (s[a^][ng]k), imp. of Sink.
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.]
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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.
I sink in deep mire.
--Ps. lxix. -
2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
The stone sunk into his forehead.
--1 San. xvii. 49. -
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Let these sayings sink down into your ears.
--Luke ix. 4 -
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.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
--Shak.He sunk down in his chariot.
--2 Kings ix. 24.Let not the fire sink or slacken.
--Mortimer. -
To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him.
--Addison.Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past tense of sink (q.v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-simple past of: sink)
WordNet
n. plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system; "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide" [ant: source]
a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof [syn: sinkhole, swallow hole]
a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it [syn: cesspool, cesspit, sump]
v. fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" [syn: drop, drop down]
cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor"
pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana" [syn: pass, lapse]
go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: settle, go down, go under] [ant: float]
descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" [syn: subside]
appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line" [syn: dip]
fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" [syn: slump, fall off]
fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" [syn: slump, slide down]
embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury]
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