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Trepan :: Trepan (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..

Sink :: Sink (v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely..

Imbrute :: Imbrute (v. i.) To sink to the state of a brute.

Reside :: Reside (v. i.) To sink; to settle, as sediment..

Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.

Commode :: Commode (n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet..

Amortize :: Amortize (v. t.) To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund..

Cower :: Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear..

Bog :: Bog (n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

Swamp :: Swamp (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir..

Wade :: Wade (v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc..

Quicksand :: Quicksand (n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it..

Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.

Draught :: Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught..

Sinker :: Sinker (n.) One who, or that which, sinks..

Suspension :: Suspensible (a.) Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation..

Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.

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