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sankverbor sunkpast tense of sink to become worse or of less valuehis fortunes have steadily sunk since the breakup of his business atrophied, crumbled, decayed, declined, degenerated, descended, deteriorated, devolved, ebbed, regressed, retrograded, rotted, worsened abated, de-escalated, diminished, downsized, dwindled, receded, wanedbroke down, corrupted, decomposed, degraded, dilapidated, disintegrated, moldered, putrefiedsoured, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt)lessened, lowered, reduceddebilitated, undermineddrooped, failed, fell, flagged, lagged, languished, ran down, sagged, slipped, wasted (away), weakened, wilted went to pot, went to seed(or ran to seed) ameliorated, improved, meliorated bettered, upgradedenhanced, enriched, fortified, heightened, intensified, strengthenedadvanced, developed, marched, proceeded, progressed 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 crashed, cratered, declined, descended, dipped, dived(or dove), dropped, fell, lowered, nose-dived, plummeted, plunged, skidded, tumbled abated, decreased, de-escalated, died (down), diminished, drooped, dwindled, ebbed, lessened, let up, moderated, subsided, tapered off, wanedreceded, retreated arose, ascended, lifted, mounted, rose, soared, spiked, upped accumulated, ballooned, built, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), enlarged, escalated, expanded, grew, increased, intensified, mushroomed, picked up, snowballed, swelled, waxed to refrain from openly showing or utteringsinks his pride and makes the first step towards a reconciliation choked (back), held back, pocketed, repressed, smothered, stifled, strangled, submerged, suppressed, swallowed controlled, governed, managedbridled, checked, curbed, quashed, quelledbottled up, containedmuffled, squelched expressed, loosed, released, took out, unleashed, vented to cease to be visiblethat evening we sat on the beach, dreamily watching the sun sink beneath the horizon dematerialized, disappeared, dissolved, evanesced, evaporated, faded, fled, flew, melted, vanished blanked (out), cleared, died (away or down or out), dispersed, dissipated, dissolved, dried upblurred, dimmed dropped out of sight appeared, materialized arrived, broke out, came out, emerged, issued, loomed, showed up to diminish the price or value ofthe slightest nick will sink the price of a piece of Tiffany glass attenuated, broke, cheapened, depreciated, depressed, devaluated, devalued, downgraded, lowered, marked down, reduced, wrote down, wrote off debased, demonetizedunderestimated, underpriced, underrated, undervaluedabridged, compressed, contracted, de-escalated, deflated, downsized, dwindled, lessened, moderated, shrank(or shrunk) appreciated, enhanced, marked up, upgraded blew up, bloated, inflatedoverestimated, overpriced, overrated, overvaluedadded, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, ballooned, boosted, compounded, dilated, enlarged, escalated, expanded, extended, heightened, increased, maximized, multiplied, raised, swelled, upped 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 abased, chastened, cheapened, debased, degraded, demeaned, discredited, disgraced, dishonored, fouled, humbled, humiliated, lowered, shamed, smirched, took down abashed, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, discountenanced, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, mortified, nonplussed(also nonplused), rattledbelittled, castigated, cried down, criticized, decried, depreciated, detracted, diminished, discounted, disparaged, minimized, put down, ridiculed, wrote offbad-mouthed, defamed, defiled, libeled(or libelled), maligned, slanderedaffronted, insultedcensured, condemned, damned, denounced, execrated, reprehended, reprobated aggrandized, canonized, deified, elevated, exalted acclaimed, applauded, boasted, celebrated, cheered, cited, commended, complimented, congratulated, decorated, eulogized, extolled, feted(or fêted), hailed, honored, lauded, praised, saluted, toutedacknowledged, recognizedhighlighted, played up, spotlighted(or spotlit)dignified, ennobled, enshrined, enskied, enthroned, glorified, magnifiedadvanced, boosted, lifted, promoted, raised, upgraded, upliftedidealized, romanticized to lead or extend downwardthe road sinks abruptly after that curve declined, descended, dipped, dropped, fell, plunged angled, canted, cocked, heeled, inclined, leaned, listed, reclined, slanted, sloped, tilted, tipped arose, ascended, climbed, mounted, rose, uprose, upswept, upturned evened, flattened, leveled(or levelled), planed, smoothed, straightened to lose bodily strength or vigorthe old woman only sunk further after she was moved to the nursing home decayed, drooped, emaciated, faded, failed, flagged, lagged, languished, sagged, wasted (away), weakened, went, wilted, withered broke down, wore outyieldeddegenerated, deteriorated, ran down, rotted convalesced, rallied, rebounded, recovered, recuperatedgained |