sinking 音标拼音: [s'ɪŋkɪŋ]
n . 沉没,下沉,低降
沈没,下沈,低降
sinking *沉
sinking n 1 :
a descent as through liquid (
especially through water );
"
they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic "
2 :
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 "
3 :
a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension ; "
with a sinking heart "; "
a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach "
[
synonym : {
sinking }, {
sinking feeling }]
Sink \
Sink \ (
s [
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ng ]
k ),
v .
i . [
imp . {
Sunk } (
s [
u ^][
ng ]
k ),
or ({
Sank } (
s [
a ^][
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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 .
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I sink in deep mire . --
Ps .
lxix .
2 .
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2 .
To enter deeply ;
to fall or retire beneath or below the surface ;
to penetrate .
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The stone sunk into his forehead . --
1 San .
xvii .
49 .
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3 .
Hence ,
to enter so as to make an abiding impression ;
to enter completely .
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Let these sayings sink down into your ears . --
Luke ix .
44 .
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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 .
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I think our country sinks beneath the yoke . --
Shak .
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He sunk down in his chariot . --
2 Kings ix .
24 .
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Let not the fire sink or slacken . --
Mortimer .
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5 .
To decrease in volume ,
as a river ;
to subside ;
to become diminished in volume or in apparent height .
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The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him . --
Addison .
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Syn :
To fall ;
subside ;
drop ;
droop ;
lower ;
decline ;
decay ;
decrease ;
lessen .
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Sinking \
Sink "
ing \,
a . &
n .
from {
Sink }.
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{
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 .
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217 Moby Thesaurus words for "
sinking ":
Brownian movement ,
advance ,
aging ,
angular motion ,
anxious ,
apprehensive ,
ascending ,
ascent ,
axial ,
axial motion ,
back ,
back -
flowing ,
backflowing ,
backing ,
backward ,
backward motion ,
bad ,
baptism ,
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
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