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Synonyms of the word 
SINK → ACTION - ACTIVITY - BREAK - BURY - CESSPIT - CESSPOOL - CISTERN - COLLAPSE - DECLINE - DEPRESSION - DESCEND - DIP - DISPLACE - DROP - EMBED - ENGRAFT - FALL - FOUNDER - GIVE - IMBED - IMPLANT - LAPSE - MOVE - PASS - PLANT - SETTLE - SINKHOLE - SLUMP - SUBSIDE - SUMPsink- v. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
- v. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
- v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
- v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
- v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
- v. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- v. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent…
- n. A basin used for holding water for washing.
- n. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- n. (geology) A sinkhole.
- n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- n. A heat sink.
- n. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- n. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- n. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink.
- n. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network.
action- n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
- n. A way of motion or functioning.
- n. A fast-paced activity.
- n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
- n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
- n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
- n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
- n. (military) Combat.
- n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
- n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
- n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
- n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
- interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
- v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
- v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.
activity- n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
- n. Something done as an action or a movement.
- n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
- n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).
break- v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
- v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
- v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
- v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
- v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
- v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
- v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
- v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
- v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
- v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
- v. (sports and games).
- v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
- v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
- v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
- v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
- v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
- v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
- n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
- n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
- n. A short holiday.
- n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
- n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- n. The beginning (of the morning).
- n. An act of escaping.
- n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
- n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- n. (sports and games).
- n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
- n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
- n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…
bury- v. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- v. (transitive) To place in the ground.
- v. (transitive, often figuratively) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
- v. (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
- n. (obsolete) A burrow.
- n. A borough; a manor.
cesspit- n. A cesspool; a pit or covered cistern used to collect sewage and waste water.
cesspool- n. An underground pit where sewage is held.
- n. (by extension) A filthy place.
cistern- n. A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
- n. (technical) In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
- n. (anatomy) A cisterna.
collapse- v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
- v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- n. The act of collapsing.
- n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
decline- n. Downward movement, fall.
- n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- n. A weakening.
- n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
- v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
- v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
- v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…
depression- n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
- n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
- n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
- n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
- n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
- n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
- n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…
descend- v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
- v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
- v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
- v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
- v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
- v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
- v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.
dip- n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- n. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- n. A dip stick.
- n. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- n. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
- n. A sauce for dipping.
- n. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- n. (archaic) A dipped candle.
- n. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which…
- n. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms…
- n. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin…
- n. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting…
- v. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
- v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- v. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
- v. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
- v. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order…
- v. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- v. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- v. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents…
- v. To immerse for baptism.
- v. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- v. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- v. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a…
- v. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance…
- v. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- v. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- v. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- v. (dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower…
- v. To slightly and swiftly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position,…
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
- n. A foolish person.
- n. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.
displace- v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- v. (psycology) to repress.
drop- n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
- n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
- n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
- n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
- n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
- n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
- n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- n. (American football) A dropped pass.
- n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
- n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
- n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
- n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
- n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
- n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
- n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
- n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
- n. (architecture) A gutta.
- n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
- n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
- n. A drop press or drop hammer.
- n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
- v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
- v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
- v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
- v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
- v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
- v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
- v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
- v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
- v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
- v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
- v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
- v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
- v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
- v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
- v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
- v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
- v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
- v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
- v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
- v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
- v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
- v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
- v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
- v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
- v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
- v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
- v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
- v. To give birth to.
- v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
- v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
embed- v. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
- v. (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
- v. (computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning…
- v. (mathematics, transitive) To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties…
- n. An embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.
- n. An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
- n. (computing) An item embedded in another document.
engraft- v. To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a…
- v. To fix firmly into place.
- adj. (rare) Engrafted.
fall- n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
- n. A loss of greatness or status.
- n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
- n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
- n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- n. See falls.
- n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
- v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
- v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
- v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
- v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
- v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
- v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
founder- n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something…
- n. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
- n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- n. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- v. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
- v. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
- v. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- v. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
- v. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or…
give- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
- v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
- v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
- v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
- v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
- v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- v. To be going on, to be occurring.
- n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
imbed- v. Alternative spelling of embed.
implant- v. (transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
- v. (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
- v. (intransitive) Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
- n. Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
- n. (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively…
lapse- n. A temporary failure; a slip.
- n. A decline or fall in standards.
- n. A pause in continuity.
- n. An interval of time between events.
- n. A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
- n. (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer…
- n. (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator,…
- n. (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- v. (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- v. (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- v. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- v. (intransitive) To become void.
- v. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence,…
move- v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
- v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
- v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
- v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
- v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
- v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
- v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- n. The act of moving; a movement.
- n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
- n. The event of changing one's residence.
- n. A change in strategy.
- n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…
pass- v. (heading) Physical movement.
- v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
- v. (heading) To move through time.
- v. (heading) To be accepted.
- v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- v. (heading) To do or be better.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
- n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
- n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- n. An attempt.
- n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- n. A sexual advance.
- n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
- n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
- n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
- n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
- n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
- n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
- n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
plant- n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
- n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
- n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
- n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
- n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
- n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
- n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
- n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
- n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
- n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- v. To place in the ground.
- v. To furnish or supply with plants.
- v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- v. To set up; to install; to instate.
settle- v. (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively;…
- v. (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- v. (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or…
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- v. (transitive) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous…
- v. (Britain, dialectal) To silence, especially by force; by extension, to kill.
- v. (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- v. (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired state, or make final disposition of (something).
- v. (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to…
- v. (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- v. (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- v. (transitive) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- v. (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take…
- v. (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- v. (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (as dregs, sediment, etc).
- v. (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- v. (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit properly.
- v. (transitive, of an animal) To impregnate.
- v. (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare…
- v. (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- v. (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +]) this sense?) (intransitive)…
- v. (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed;…
- v. (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- v. (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have…
- v. (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively…
- v. (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- v. (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house,…
- v. (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- v. (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- v. (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a jointure for a spouse.
- v. (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +]) this sense?) (intransitive,…
- n. (archaic) A seat of any kind.
- n. (now rare) A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.
- n. (obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare…
sinkhole- n. (geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an…
- n. A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
- n. (pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
- n. (Internet) A DNS server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains,…
slump- v. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- v. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- v. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- v. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- v. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- n. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance,…
- n. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard…
- n. (Scotland, Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
- n. (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- n. (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- n. (slang, by extension) A period when the person lives without sex when sex is expected or desired.
subside- v. To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
- v. To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
- v. To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to…
sump- n. A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- n. The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- n. A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- n. (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- n. (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- n. (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
- v. (intransitive) Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.
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