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Faint :: Faint (n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.

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..

Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.

Deeply :: Deeply (adv.) At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply..

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

Plumming :: Plumming (n.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines..

Depreciate :: Depreciate (v. i.) To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie..

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..

Forcer :: Forcer (n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc..

Deepen :: Deepen (v. t.) To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel..

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

Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects)..

Sinker :: Sinker (n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it..

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx..

Lower :: Lower (v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline..

Fall :: Fall (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes..

Introcession :: Introcession (n.) A depression, or inward sinking of parts..

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

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