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— English words —
  • sink v. (Heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
  • sink v. (Heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
  • sink v. (Transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
  • sink v. (Transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
  • sink v. (Transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
  • sink v. (Transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
  • sink v. (Transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
  • sink v. (Intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  • sink v. (Intransitive, archaic) To die.
  • sink v. (Intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
  • sink n. A basin used for holding water for washing.
  • sink n. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
  • sink n. (Geology) A sinkhole.
  • sink n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
  • sink n. A heat sink.
  • sink n. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
  • sink n. (Ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals…
  • sink n. (Uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
  • sink n. (Computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
  • sink n. (Graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
  • sink n. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
  • sink n. A depression in a stereotype plate.
  • sink n. (Theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
  • sink n. (Mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
  • sink n. (Game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game’s economy, thus controlling…
  • Sink prop.n. A surname.
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Afrikaans
    • sink v. (Intransitive) to sink.
  • Afrikaans - Azerbaijani
  • Estonian
  • Faroese
    • sink n. (Metal) zinc.
  • Icelandic
    • sink n. Zinc (chemical element).
  • Louisiana creole
  • Maltese
  • Mauritian creole
    • sink num. Alternative spelling of senk.
  • Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
    • sink n. Zinc (chemical element, symbol Zn).
  • West frisian
    • sink v. First-person singular present of sinke.
    • sink v. Imperative of sinke.
— English words, defined in German —
  • sink V. (In einer Flüssigkeit) sich langsam zum Boden herunterbewegen; sinken, untergehen, versinken.
  • sink S. Das Waschbecken, Spülbecken, Abwaschbecken.
  • sink S. Abfallgrube.
  • sink S. Abwasserkanal.
  • sink S. Senke, Bodensenke.
— English word, defined in Dutch —
  • sink w. Zinken.
— English words, defined in French —
  • sink n. Évier.
  • sink n. (Traitement du signal) (Science des matériaux) Puits.
  • sink v. Couler, sombrer (en parlant d’un navire).
  • sink v. (Populaire) Se noyer.
  • sink v. (Sens figuré) S’abaisser, baisser, diminuer.
  • sink v. Forer (un puits), rencontrer, toucher.
— English words, defined in Spanish —
  • sink v. Hundirse.
  • sink v. Sumergirse.
  • sink v. Enterrarse.
  • sink v. Bajarse.
  • sink v. Desplomarse.
  • sink v. Degradarse.
  • sink v. Hundir.
  • sink v. Sumergir.
  • sink v. Enterrar.
  • sink v. Descender, bajar.
  • sink v. Declinar.
  • sink s. Lavabo, fregadero.
  • sink s. Lavamanos, lavatorio.
  • sink s. Cloaca, pozo.
— English words, defined in Portuguese —
  • sink s. Pia.
  • sink s. *kitchen sink (pia de cozinha).
  • sink s. Bacia.
  • sink v. Afundar.
  • sink v. Submergir.
— In German —
  • sink V. 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sinken.
— In French —
  • sink n.m. (Canada) (Anglicisme) Évier.
  • Sink n.fam. Nom de famille.
149 English words from 37 English definitions

abode absolutely absorbs alcoholic Alternative and apparent appropriate archaic basin become but callback cannot captures carrying chemical chemical␣element collects Computing conceal controlling currency decrease degraded depressed depression Descending descent destination development die diminish diminished drain drink Ecology economy element energy especially event events excavation excess extinguish fail First First␣person First-person␣singular Five for from game Geology Graph Graph␣theory habitat Ham Heading heat heat␣sink height holding holding␣water ignore Imperative individuals into Intransitive its keep keep␣out keep␣out␣of land Metal Mining motion move moved network object off One out outlet out␣of out␣of␣sight overwhelmed own pay payment person persons physical place plate population present programming receives reduce remove resources river scenery several shaft shifting sight singular sink sinkhole slang smaller social something spelling stage stereotype strength subside support suppress surname symbol systems than that the Theater theory thus Transitive transportation transportation␣network trapdoor Uncountable used vertex visible volume washing wastewater water where with wretched zinc

23 English words from 34 foreign definitions

Boden Canada Cloaca Das des Descender kitchen kitchen␣sink Lavabo Nom noyer Person pia puits Science Sens sich signal Singular sink sombrer toucher Verbs

2 foreign words from 37 English definitions

senk sinke

49 foreign words from 34 foreign definitions

abaisser Abwasserkanal Afundar Aktiv Anglicisme Bacia baisser bajar Bajarse Couler cozinha Declinar Degradarse Desplomarse diminuer einer Enterrar Évier famille figuré Flüssigkeit Forer fregadero Hundir Hundirse Imperativ langsam Lavamanos lavatorio matériaux navire Nom␣de␣famille parlant Populaire pozo Präsens rencontrer Senke Se␣noyer Sens␣figuré sinken Spülbecken Submergir Traitement untergehen versinken Waschbecken Zinken zum

81 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Sinke Sinko sinks Sinks sinkt sinky sinked sinker Sinkes Sinkie sinkin' sink␣in Sinkos sinkage sinkant sinkers sinkest sinketh sinkful sinkier Sinkies sinking Sinkler sinks␣in sinkable sinkages sinkants sinkfuls sinkhole sink-hole sink␣hole Sinkiang sinkiest sinkijon sinkings Sinklers sinkless sinklike sinkroom sink␣tidy sink␣trap sinkward sinkaline Sinkfield sinkholed sinkholes sink-holes sink␣holes sinking␣in Sinkinson +31 words

58 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

resinks Rusinko dry␣sinks Helsinki Rusinkos Talsinki diesinker heatsinks heat␣sinks resinking timesinks time␣sinks Tsinkiang unsinking diesinkers diesinking heartsinks heatsinked heavy␣sinks Helsinkian jack-sinker tanksinker tank-sinker tank␣sinker unsinkable unsinkably carbon␣sinks heatsinking Helsinkians jack-sinkers nonsinkable pseudosinks tanksinkers tank-sinkers tank␣sinkers vessel␣sinks Belfast␣sinks countersinks grants-in-kind grants␣in␣kind Hans␣in␣kelder kitchen␣sinks kitchen-sinky kitchen␣sinky unsinkability benefits␣in␣kind countersinking kitchen-sinkery unsinkableness heartsink␣patient +8 words

23 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

resink dry␣sink antisink heatsink heat␣sink Minisink timesink time␣sink heartsink heavy␣sink carbon␣sink pseudosink vessel␣sink Belfast␣sink countersink kitchen␣sink laundry␣sink printer's␣ink utility␣sink shot␣one␣in␣the␣sink shoot␣one␣in␣the␣sink shoots␣one␣in␣the␣sink shooting␣one␣in␣the␣sink

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ink sin Sin SIN

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

nis NIS Niš

5 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

inks kins -kins k'ins skin

90 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Akins Askin askin' ask␣in binks Binks dinks DINKs Ekins e-skin finks Finks ginks hinks Hinks ikons Inkas inkes Inuks jinks Jinks kains Khins Kiens kilns kinas kinds kines Kines kings Kings King's kinks kinos Kirns knibs Knies knish Kniss knits links minks Minsk naiks Naiks Nasik Neski nicks Nicks Nikes +40 words

28 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ink ins Ins INS in's ins. Ins. IS-K kin Kin -kin k'in -kin- kis ksi KSI Nik -nik nis NIS Niš NKs NSI sin Sin SIN ski -ski

48 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bink dink DINK fink Fink gink hink Hink jink kink link Link mink oink pink Pink rink Rink sank sick Sick silk Silk Sina sinc Sind sine SINE sing Sing sing. Sing. s****ing sinh Sini Sinj sino- Sino- sins Sint Sirk Sisk sunk tink Vink wink zink Zink

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ink sin Sin SIN

10 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

scink shink sinik skink slink spink Spink stink swink Swink


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