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sinkingverbpresent participle of sink to become worse or of less valuehis fortunes have steadily sunk since the breakup of his business atrophying, crumbling, decaying, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, devolving, ebbing, regressing, retrograding, rotting, worsening abating, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, receding, waningbreaking down, corrupting, decomposing, degrading, dilapidating, disintegrating, moldering, putrefyingsouring, spoilinglessening, lowering, reducingdebilitating, underminingdrooping, failing, falling, flagging, lagging, languishing, running down, sagging, slipping, wasting (away), weakening, wilting going to pot, going to seed(or running to seed) ameliorating, improving, meliorating bettering, upgradingenhancing, enriching, fortifying, heightening, intensifying, strengtheningadvancing, developing, marching, proceeding, progressing 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 crashing, cratering, declining, descending, dipping, diving, dropping, falling, lowering, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, skidding, tumbling abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, drooping, dwindling, dying (down), ebbing, lessening, letting up, moderating, subsiding, tapering off, waningreceding, retreating arising, ascending, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, spiking, upping accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mushrooming, picking up, snowballing, swelling, waxing to refrain from openly showing or utteringsinks his pride and makes the first step towards a reconciliation choking (back), holding back, pocketing, repressing, smothering, stifling, strangling, submerging, suppressing, swallowing controlling, governing, managingbridling, checking, curbing, quashing, quellingbottling up, containingmuffling, squelching expressing, loosing, releasing, taking out, unleashing, venting to cease to be visiblethat evening we sat on the beach, dreamily watching the sun sink beneath the horizon dematerializing, disappearing, dissolving, evanescing, evaporating, fading, fleeing, flying, melting, vanishing blanking (out), clearing, dispersing, dissipating, dissolving, drying up, dying (away or down or out)blurring, dimming dropping out of sight appearing, materializing arriving, breaking out, coming out, emerging, issuing, looming, showing up to diminish the price or value ofthe slightest nick will sink the price of a piece of Tiffany glass attenuating, breaking, cheapening, depreciating, depressing, devaluating, devaluing, downgrading, lowering, marking down, reducing, writing down, writing off debasing, demonetizingunderestimating, underpricing, underrating, undervaluingabridging, compressing, contracting, de-escalating, deflating, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, moderating, shrinking appreciating, enhancing, marking up, upgrading bloating, blowing up, inflatingoverestimating, overpricing, overrating, overvaluingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, compounding, dilating, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, heightening, increasing, maximizing, multiplying, raising, swelling, upping 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 abasing, chastening, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, humbling, humiliating, lowering, shaming, smirching, taking down abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing to lead or extend downwardthe road sinks abruptly after that curve declining, descending, dipping, dropping, falling, plunging angling, canting, cocking, heeling, inclining, leaning, listing, reclining, slanting, sloping, tilting, tipping arising, ascending, climbing, mounting, rising, uprising, upsweeping, upturning evening, flattening, leveling(or levelling), planing, smoothing, straightening to lose bodily strength or vigorthe old woman only sunk further after she was moved to the nursing home decaying, drooping, emaciating, fading, failing, flagging, going, lagging, languishing, sagging, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering breaking down, wearing outyieldingdegenerating, deteriorating, rotting, running down convalescing, rallying, rebounding, recovering, recuperatinggaining |