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sinkverb to become worse or of less valuehis fortunes have steadily sunk since the breakup of his business atrophy, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, devolve, ebb, regress, retrograde, rot, worsen abate, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, recede, wanebreak down, corrupt, decompose, degrade, dilapidate, disintegrate, molder, putrefysour, spoillessen, lower, reducedebilitate, underminedroop, fail, fall, flag, lag, languish, run down, sag, slip, waste (away), weaken, wilt go to pot, go to seed(or run to seed) ameliorate, improve, meliorate better, upgradeenhance, enrich, fortify, heighten, intensify, strengthenadvance, develop, march, proceed, progress to go to a lower level especially abruptlyI had just bought a bundle of shares of the stock when its price sank like a rock crash, crater, decline, descend, dip, dive, drop, fall, lower, nose-dive, plummet, plunge, skid, tumble abate, decrease, de-escalate, die (down), diminish, droop, dwindle, ebb, lessen, let up, moderate, subside, taper off, wanerecede, retreat arise, ascend, lift, mount, rise, soar, spike, up accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mushroom, pick up, snowball, swell, wax to refrain from openly showing or utteringsinks his pride and makes the first step towards a reconciliation choke (back), hold back, pocket, repress, smother, stifle, strangle, submerge, suppress, swallow control, govern, managebridle, check, curb, quash, quellbottle up, containmuffle, squelch express, loose, release, take out, unleash, vent to cease to be visiblethat evening we sat on the beach, dreamily watching the sun sink beneath the horizon dematerialize, disappear, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate, fade, flee, fly, melt, vanish blank (out), clear, die (away or down or out), disperse, dissipate, dry upblur, dim drop out of sight appear, materialize arrive, break out, come out, emerge, issue, loom, show up to diminish the price or value ofthe slightest nick will sink the price of a piece of Tiffany glass attenuate, break, cheapen, depreciate, depress, devaluate, devalue, downgrade, lower, mark down, reduce, write down, write off debase, demonetizeunderestimate, underprice, underrate, undervalueabridge, compress, contract, de-escalate, deflate, downsize, dwindle, lessen, moderate, shrink appreciate, enhance, mark up, upgrade bloat, blow up, inflateoverestimate, overprice, overrate, overvalueadd, aggrandize, amplify, augment, balloon, boost, compound, dilate, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, heighten, increase, maximize, multiply, raise, swell, up to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthe revelation that he has been embezzling for years definitely sinks him in my opinion abase, chasten, cheapen, debase, degrade, demean, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, foul, humble, humiliate, lower, shame, smirch, take down abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify, nonplus, rattlebelittle, castigate, criticize, cry down, decry, depreciate, detract, diminish, discount, disparage, minimize, put down, ridicule, write offbad-mouth, defame, defile, libel, malign, slanderaffront, insultcensure, condemn, damn, denounce, execrate, reprehend, reprobate aggrandize, canonize, deify, elevate, exalt acclaim, applaud, boast, celebrate, cheer, cite, commend, compliment, congratulate, decorate, eulogize, extol(also extoll), fete(or fête), hail, honor, laud, praise, salute, toutacknowledge, recognizehighlight, play up, spotlightdignify, ennoble, enshrine, ensky, enthrone, glorify, magnifyadvance, boost, lift, promote, raise, upgrade, upliftidealize, romanticize to lead or extend downwardthe road sinks abruptly after that curve decline, descend, dip, drop, fall, plunge angle, cant, cock, heel, incline, lean, list, recline, slant, slope, tilt, tip arise, ascend, climb, mount, rise, uprise, upsweep, upturn even, flatten, level, plane, smooth, straighten to lose bodily strength or vigorthe old woman only sunk further after she was moved to the nursing home decay, droop, emaciate, fade, fail, flag, go, lag, languish, sag, waste (away), weaken, wilt, wither break down, wear outyielddegenerate, deteriorate, rot, run down convalesce, rally, rebound, recover, recuperategain a place of great vice and corruptionwas able to rise above the sink that was his birthplace Augean stable, cesspool, Gomorrah tenderloinden, dump, pigpen, pigstyhellhole, hole before the 12th century |