Sinking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SINKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged
• (of a ship) go to the bottom of the sea or some other body of water because of damage or a collision
• cause (a ship) to sink
• fail and not be seen or heard of again
• cause to fail
• conceal, keep in the background, or ignore
• descend from a higher to a lower position; drop downwards
• (of a person) lower oneself or drop down gently
• gradually penetrate into the surface of something
• gradually decrease or decline in value, amount, quality, or intensity
• lapse or fall into a particular state or condition
• approach death
• insert beneath a surface
• cause something sharp to penetrate (a surface)
• push or thrust (an object) into something
• excavate (a well) or bore (a shaft) vertically downwards
• hit (a ball) into a hole in golf or snooker
• (in golf) hit the ball into the hole with (a putt or other shot)
• rapidly consume (an alcoholic drink)
NOUN:
• the act of sinking
• a fixed basin with a water supply and outflow pipe
• a body or process which acts to absorb or remove energy or a particular component from a system
• a place of vice or corruption
• a school or estate situated in a socially deprived area
• a descent as through liquid (especially through water)
• a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength)
• a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension
• a pool or marsh in which a river's water disappears by evaporation or percolation.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move to a lower level
• a. & n. from Sink.

Words related to SINKING

sank8 sink8 sinks9 sunk8 sunken10

Words that contain SINKING

sinkings13 countersinking21

How to use SINKING in a sentence

• Every once in a while bubbles would come up and I thought it was because that thing I was standing on was sinking lower.
• John Melmoth and Moncada quitted the apartment, and the Wanderer, sinking back in his chair slept profoundly.
• After sinking quickly, he could keep at any necessary depth, and row to a great distance in any direction, without coming to the surface.
• The Jacobins of Nantes drown 90 priests destined for Guiana, by sinking the ship in which they were embarked.
• The world went black and she felt herself sinking into a bottomless abyss.
• The sinking of the Niger came with tragic swiftness.
• He tottered to a chair and, sinking into it, covered his face and wept aloud.
• The sky above them now shone with its brilliant, metallic blue once more, while ahead, the sun was sinking lower.
• As they turned northwards around the great oval of Washington Park, the sun was sinking into a golden haze of dust and smoke.
• The value of these bills kept continually sinking, because the real hard money could not be obtained for them.
• He was sinking in a sea of troubles, sinking because the old buoyancy was gone, sinking because many hands were stretched forth to push him under, and never one to draw him forth.
• But the words that Sheik Salah caught were sinking deep.
• Felix tried to rescue his little son of three years old, but, finding himself sinking, he let the child go, and saved himself alone.
• This last was manifest in the sudden sinking of her bodily powers, preeminently those of speech.
• Moreover the sun must have been now fast sinking, and all speed had to be made to get the camp fortified before nightfall.
• This gradual sinking to the earth was, in fact, one reason why Eustacia had thought that the part of the Turkish Knight, though not the shortest, would suit her best.
• Then a sudden sinking sensation in the region of the waistcoat and an idea occurred simultaneously.
• Blows, shivering on the bank, watched him out of sight, and, missing his cap, was just in time to see that friend of several seasons slowly sinking in the middle of the river.
• They met with disaster very soon after their start, one of the canoes having struck a rock, which made a hole in its side and caused the sinking of the craft.
• She felt, with a sinking heart, that if he took her words for a refusal, and by no means a gentle one, it could not be wondered at.
• The clouds obscured the sky, yet occasionally through some narrow rift, came a glimpse of the sun, as it rose to the zenith, and then began sinking into the west.

Similar words containing SINK without suffix ing

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