Sinks is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SINKS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SINK, to subside to a lower level
• 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:
• 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 pool or marsh in which a river's water disappears by evaporation or percolation.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move to a lower level

Words related to SINKS

sank8 sink8 sinking12 sunk8 sunken10

Words that contain SINKS

heartsinks17 countersinks18

How to use SINKS in a sentence

• In enthusiasm everything good in a man appears, while the common and vulgar in him sinks away.
• A windlass in the anchor-chamber now pays out the cable between it and the mine as the anchor-chamber sinks.
• This is a discovery on the spiritual plane equivalent to the discovery on the physical plane that we can make iron float by the same law by which it sinks.
• Thus, borne through my task toward the end, my own soul now sinks at what I myself have portrayed.
• In camps extreme precautions are taken to screen the sinks and kitchens from flies, and all enlisted men should cooperate in the effort to make these precautions successful.
• In putting them on, take care not to drop the little square nut off the bolt into powder snow as it sinks at once and may be irretrievably lost.
• The Christian population continually threatened the Jewish quarters, which public opinion pointed to as haunts and sinks of iniquity.
• And if it sinks or is driven back by adverse winds and frowning skies, there is an end of his legitimate dealings with such frail merchandise.
• He quietly sinks the net in the water, and waits until he can see the fish distinctly, lying perfectly still and within reach.
• Talbot, covering her face with her hands, turns aside and sinks into a chair.
• Earth and all its thoughts of earth sink under Deep as deep in water sinks a stone.
• Elsa embraces her brother with joy, the king and nobles gladly welcome him, and Ortrud sinks fainting to the ground.
• Thus a cork will float on water, while a stone sinks to the bottom.
• Nitrate of soda is readily carried down, as deep as the water sinks.
• Then, when this inspired music becomes degraded in its passion, it sinks into the pipe of Pan, and the double pipe of Marsyas, and is then rejected by Athena.
• Some sinks into the ground, and runs along in little streams below the surface.
• During the last days of Moses that man, great to the whole race, speaks a word that sinks in deep.
• Every hour which they bring, every morning and every evening, sinks down with new blessings on the world.
• Then the sun sinks low In the western glow, And the birds go to rest.
• Scene sinks, discovering magnificent funeral ceremony at the Abbey, Elsinore, near Edinburgh.
• The constant rain of needles and the crumbling of the fallen trees form a rich, brown mould, into which the foot sinks noiselessly.
• At the sound of the key Gordon sinks to his knees in the square of moonlight.
• Having ejected this great column of water, the action ceases, and the water that had filled the basin sinks down into the well.
• In some houses the sinks are not on every floor, and in these, the poor women have to drag their heavy buckets of water up and down the stairs.

Similar words containing SINK without suffix s

sink8 sinky12 sinker10 sinkage12 sinkers11 sinkful14 sinkier11 sinking12 sinkable14 sinkages13 sinkfuls15 sinkhole15 sinkiest12 sinkings13 diesinker14 heartsink16 sinkholes16 diesinkers15 heartsinks17 unsinkable16 sinkerball16 countersink17 nonsinkable17 sinkerballs17 countersinks18 countersinking21

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