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371 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ s_ˈɪ_ŋ_k_ɪ_ŋ], [ sˈɪŋkɪŋ], [ sˈɪŋkɪŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for sinking:Definition for Sinking:
- In vbl senses; also: internal bodily sensation caused by hunger or apprehension; s. -fund, moneys set aside for the purpose of sinking or wiping out a state\'s or corporation\'s debt by degrees( the s. -f., surplus of revenue over expenditure, devoted to payment of national debt; raid the s. -f., use such surplus in any year for other purposes).
Synonyms for Sinking:
adj.
•descending (adjective) •dying (adjective) •low (adjective)n.
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- going under.
v.
•depressing (verb) •descending (verb)- dropping,
- settling,
- falling down,
- nose-diving,
- coming down,
- plummeting,
- descendent,
- toppling,
- tumbling.
- Decaying,
- retrogressing,
- tergiversating,
- Degenerating,
- wilting,
- lapsing,
- Dilapidating,
- going downhill,
- Collapsing,
- getting worse,
- ebbing,
- mouldering,
- withering,
- worsening,
- Putrefying,
- falling apart,
- deteriorating,
- fading,
- atrophying,
- Slumping,
- regressing,
- relapsing,
- reverting,
- downgrading.
Other synonyms:
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- wreck.
- despairing,
- collapse,
- sinking feeling,
- backing,
- obliteration,
- dejectedness,
- gyrational,
- fretful,
- jumpy,
- bottomless,
- abasement,
- baptism,
- digging,
- rotational,
- slipping away,
- setting,
- anxious,
- doting,
- concavity,
- wrecking,
- demolishing,
- ascending,
- trend,
- depressed,
- ascent,
- regression,
- destruction,
- drown,
- sagging,
- abate,
- public funds,
- corrupt,
- submerge,
- inundation,
- oblique motion,
- jittery,
- retrogression,
- hollowness,
- subsiding,
- come,
- mournful,
- growing old,
- submergence,
- profound,
- alleviate,
- deep,
- grounding,
- ongoing,
- imagine,
- nervous,
- remission,
- reducing,
- retrogressive,
- de-escalation,
- immersion,
- heavy-laden,
- imply,
- queasy,
- rising,
- onrush,
- nonviable,
- Tunneling,
- sink,
- heavy,
- dullness,
- important,
- dig,
- climbing,
- forward motion,
- melancholy,
- deciduous,
- passage,
- in articulo mortis,
- current,
- intense,
- fragmenting,
- done for,
- dispirited,
- degradation,
- gloomy,
- humble,
- Credit mobilier,
- detract,
- upward,
- degressive,
- capsize,
- connote,
- subsidise,
- tottering,
- engulf,
- common,
- terminal,
- downcast,
- demotion,
- flow off,
- drift,
- drifting,
- allay,
- excavation,
- fail,
- Languishing,
- flux,
- rushing,
- flow,
- assuage,
- Tabetic,
- Levelling,
- pour,
- go down,
- go under,
- heaviness of heart,
- despicable,
- miserable,
- shrinking,
- Traject,
- immerse,
- hopeless,
- inferior,
- uneasy,
- deduct,
- cesspit,
- mining,
- drilling,
- dwindling,
- retreating,
- tap,
- pour out,
- Marcescent,
- declivitous,
- relapse,
- duck,
- draining,
- despondency,
- deterioration,
- drooping,
- decadent,
- bonds,
- Detrusion,
- Downfalling,
- inactivity,
- Shriveling,
- on one's deathbed,
- basin,
- fluent,
- streaming,
- interrupt,
- receding,
- Trajet,
- effete,
- bad,
- back,
- capsizing,
- lessen,
- submersion,
- foundering,
- flagging,
- slump,
- ancient,
- stocks,
- retiring,
- Crumbling,
- razing,
- Disintegrating,
- Refluent,
- demolition,
- coming apart,
- addicted to,
- backflowing,
- pining,
- sideward,
- diminishing,
- senescent,
- career,
- tumbledown,
- diminish,
- shaky,
- running,
- course,
- progressive,
- Prosternation,
- devastation,
- dejected,
- failure,
- failing,
- retrograde,
- intensity,
- souse,
- set,
- slide,
- descendant,
- droop,
- overwhelm,
- getting on,
- weakening,
- rotatory,
- burial,
- stricken,
- subside,
- drop,
- instances,
- thinking,
- woeful,
- faltering,
- Engulfment,
- forlorn,
- douse,
- low spirits,
- driftage,
- disablement,
- wasting,
- run,
- reduction,
- mounting,
- axial,
- sloping,
- soaring,
- regressive,
- doleful,
- slanting,
- Decurrent,
- gentle,
- curtail,
- rush,
- Sternway,
- blue,
- stream,
- sunk,
- dolorous,
- apprehensive,
- expiring,
- tense,
- inundate,
- drain away,
- degeneration,
- given up,
- subsidence,
- teem,
- desolate,
- backward,
- rotary,
- decline,
- run out,
- axial motion,
- ducking,
- slack,
- wane,
- flight,
- intermit,
- abatement,
- advance,
- unquiet,
- sousing,
- think,
- Gyratory,
- conceive,
- cast,
- cracking,
- probing,
- way,
- cut,
- flowing,
- commotion,
- dejection,
- tearing down,
- settlement,
- loss,
- passing,
- disabling,
- downhill,
- progress,
- declension.
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
dive, diving, demise, destruction, amortization.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
shrinking, diminishing, Disembarking, decreasing, declining, receding, Collapsing, descending, slipping, sliding, dwindling, leaking, Plunging, engaging, shortening, dying, retreating, dribble, eroding, falling, dripping, Involving, lapsing, dumping, lowering, narrowing, moving, exiting, Alighting, laying, Arising, crashing, breaking, waning, reducing, becoming, pouring, slowing, train, walking, rushing, flowing, driving, jam, resulting, Forming, cutting, dating.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
Homophones for Sinking:
- smacking, sanguineous, swan song, squeamishness, sensuousness, singsong, swinging, sensing, swingeing, smoking, shining sumac, sneezing, sinuousness, sneakiness, shoemaking, smogginess, Sinkiang, skin senses, smooching, swing music, senescence, smashing, synonymousness, sun king, snogging, sanguineness, semiconscious, singing, smugness, sickeningness, sneaking, smocking, snugness.
Hypernym for Sinking:
n.
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event
going under, immersion, submersion, subsidence, submerging, subsiding, foundering, settling, submergence.
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