sink

Fetched 2026-10-26 (cache).

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Verb

{{senseid|en|to descend}} {{lb|en|heading|physical}} ''To move or be moved into something.''
{{lb|en|heading|social}} ''To diminish or be diminished.''
{{lb|en|transitive|slang|archaic}} To [[conceal]] and [[appropriate]].
{{lb|en|transitive|slang|archaic}} To keep out of sight; to [[suppress]]; to [[ignore]].
{{lb|en|transitive|slang}} To [[drink]] (especially something alcoholic).
{{lb|en|transitive|slang}} To [[pay]] absolutely.
{{lb|en|transitive|slang|archaic}} To reduce or extinguish by payment.
{{lb|en|intransitive}} To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
{{lb|en|intransitive|archaic}} To [[die]].
{{lb|en|intransitive}} To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

{{senseid|en|basin}} A [[basin]] used for [[hold]]ing [[water]] for [[wash]]ing.
A [[drain]] for [[carry]]ing off [[wastewater]].
{{lb|en|geology}} A [[sinkhole]].
A [[depression]] in [[land]] where [[water]] [[collect]]s, with no [[visible]] [[outlet]].
A [[heat sink]].
A [[place]] that [[absorb]]s [[resource]]s or [[energy]].
{{lb|en|ecology}} A [[habitat]] that cannot [[support]] a [[population]] on its own but [[receive]]s the [[excess]] of [[individual]]s from some other [[source]].
{{lb|en|uncountable}} [[descend|Descend]]ing [[motion]]; [[descent]].
{{lb|en|computing|programming}} An [[object]] or [[callback]] that [[capture]]s [[event]]s.
{{lb|en|graph theory}} A [[destination]] [[vertex]] in a [[transportation network]].
{{lb|en|graph theory}} A [[node]] in [[directed graph]] for which all of its [[edge]]s go into it; one with no [[outgoing]] edges.
An [[abode]] of [[degrade]]d [[person]]s; a [[wretched]] [[place]].

{{cln|en|surnames from Dutch|surnames from German}} {{surname|en|from=Germanic languages < occupations }}, referring to a musician who played the zincke.

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