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What does sink mean?

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Verb
  1. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
    1. (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
    2. (transitive) To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
    3. (transitive) To push (something) into something.
    4. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
  2. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
    1. (intransitive, figuratively, of the human heart) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
    2. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
    3. (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
  3. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
  4. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
  5. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
  6. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  7. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
Noun
  1. A basin used for holding water for washing
  2. A drain for carrying off wastewater
  3. (geology) A sinkhole
  4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
  5. A heat sink
  6. A place that absorbs resources or energy
  7. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch
  8. (computing) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
  9. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network
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