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)
  • slipping,
  • descending,
  • downward,
  • sliding,
  • plummeting,
  • falling,
  • descendent,
  • dropping,
  • declining,
  • lowering,
  • Plunging.
  •dying (adjective)
  • at death's door,
  • in extremis.
  •low (adjective)
  • lower.
  •reverting (adjective)
  • retrograde.
  •settling in (adjective)
  • falling,
  • Engulfing,
  • dropping,
  • Drowning,
  • Immersing,
  • fading,
  • submerging.

• n.

  •
  • going under.
  •depression (noun)
  • diminution,
  • depression,
  • sag,
  • attenuation,
  • decrease,
  • debasement.
  •descent (noun)
  • sinkage.
  •sinking (noun)
  • sinking feeling.

• v.

  •decreasing (verb)
  • lessening.
  •deepening (verb)
  • deepening.
  •depressing (verb)
  • depressing,
  • lowering,
  • decreasing,
  • Attenuating,
  • debasing.
  •descending (verb)
  • falling down,
  • falling,
  • descendent,
  • coming down,
  • plummeting,
  • toppling,
  • dropping,
  • settling,
  • descending,
  • tumbling,
  • nose-diving.
  •deteriorating (verb)
  • waning,
  • tergiversating,
  • Decaying,
  • Dilapidating,
  • Putrefying,
  • deteriorating,
  • going downhill,
  • regressing,
  • atrophying,
  • downgrading,
  • Degenerating,
  • mouldering,
  • Collapsing,
  • Slumping,
  • getting worse,
  • withering,
  • lapsing,
  • wilting,
  • reverting,
  • falling apart,
  • slipping,
  • retrogressing,
  • fading,
  • ebbing,
  • worsening,
  • sliding,
  • relapsing,
  • declining.
  •disappearing (verb)
  • vanishing,
  • fleeing,
  • departing,
  • melting,
  • Evaporating,
  • going,
  • dissolving,
  • flying,
  • disappearing,
  • hiding,
  • Evanescing.
  •immersing (verb)
  • bathing,
  • dunking,
  • Immersing,
  • Plunging,
  • Inundating,
  • flooding,
  • dousing,
  • Engulfing,
  • Wallowing,
  • Dipping,
  • Drowning,
  • submerging.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • down,
  • glide,
  • aging,
  • fall,
  • rise,
  • dip,
  • dying.
  •
  • descent.
  •
  • wreck.
  •catastrophe
  • disaster.
  •incurable
  • moribund.
  •Other relevant words:
  • forlorn,
  • down,
  • weakening,
  • flagging,
  • terminal,
  • declining,
  • degenerate,
  • driftage,
  • settlement,
  • anxious,
  • engulf,
  • razing,
  • low spirits,
  • ducking,
  • remission,
  • current,
  • basin,
  • downturn,
  • disablement,
  • deduct,
  • pining,
  • commotion,
  • fall,
  • flight,
  • capsize,
  • shrinking,
  • de-escalation,
  • flux,
  • advance,
  • reflux,
  • degeneration,
  • Detrusion,
  • run,
  • backing,
  • blue,
  • capsizing,
  • demolishing,
  • alleviate,
  • degradation,
  • go down,
  • course,
  • drown,
  • stricken,
  • grounding,
  • common,
  • way,
  • Engulfment,
  • reduction,
  • devastation,
  • duck,
  • jumpy,
  • dejection,
  • stocks,
  • drift,
  • rushing,
  • deciduous,
  • degressive,
  • decadent,
  • streaming,
  • shaky,
  • disaster,
  • retiring,
  • drifting,
  • apprehensive,
  • concavity,
  • in articulo mortis,
  • teem,
  • subsidise,
  • obliteration,
  • axial motion,
  • inactivity,
  • flowing,
  • Tunneling,
  • flow off,
  • inundate,
  • dwindling,
  • Gyratory,
  • cast,
  • detract,
  • senescent,
  • sloping,
  • rotational,
  • sunk,
  • downhill,
  • depressed,
  • sagging,
  • retrogressive,
  • dejected,
  • subsidence,
  • deterioration,
  • wreck,
  • slipping away,
  • disabling,
  • flow,
  • excavation,
  • forward motion,
  • upward,
  • Levelling,
  • desolate,
  • submerge,
  • slide,
  • abatement,
  • mounting,
  • descendent,
  • glide,
  • jittery,
  • backward,
  • slack,
  • hopeless,
  • mining,
  • probing,
  • Traject,
  • slump,
  • Refluence,
  • wrecking,
  • heaviness of heart,
  • dig,
  • descendant,
  • concave,
  • Decurrent,
  • doleful,
  • backflowing,
  • drop,
  • oblique motion,
  • Languishing,
  • loss,
  • Refluent,
  • diminishing,
  • tearing down,
  • Tabetic,
  • descent,
  • submergence,
  • think,
  • wane,
  • tap,
  • running,
  • axial,
  • subsiding,
  • drilling,
  • failing,
  • subside,
  • ascent,
  • intermit,
  • immersion,
  • dying,
  • instances,
  • miserable,
  • Trajet,
  • profound,
  • imply,
  • fretful,
  • sousing,
  • growing old,
  • lower,
  • diminish,
  • inferior,
  • at death's door,
  • conceive,
  • heavy-laden,
  • pour out,
  • mournful,
  • droop,
  • Credit mobilier,
  • drain away,
  • demolition,
  • pour,
  • wasting,
  • demotion,
  • set,
  • sideward,
  • getting on,
  • foundering,
  • Disintegrating,
  • sinkage,
  • back,
  • douse,
  • ebb,
  • important,
  • declivitous,
  • bad,
  • soaring,
  • climbing,
  • retrogression,
  • lessen,
  • deep,
  • destruction,
  • fragmenting,
  • rise,
  • dolorous,
  • regressive,
  • retrograde,
  • despicable,
  • hollowness,
  • go under,
  • nonviable,
  • passage,
  • mean,
  • public funds,
  • Shriveling,
  • submersion,
  • in extremis,
  • unquiet,
  • on one's deathbed,
  • setting,
  • receding,
  • Prosternation,
  • woeful,
  • given up,
  • overwhelm,
  • dispirited,
  • humble,
  • interrupt,
  • declension,
  • intense,
  • bonds,
  • retreating,
  • effete,
  • slanting,
  • despairing,
  • corrupt,
  • ongoing,
  • cut,
  • fail,
  • run out,
  • ancient,
  • abasement,
  • rotatory,
  • thinking,
  • Crumbling,
  • gentle,
  • draining,
  • digging,
  • going under,
  • dullness,
  • trend,
  • sag,
  • uneasy,
  • Marcescent,
  • faltering,
  • rising,
  • tottering,
  • curtail,
  • ascending,
  • aging,
  • failure,
  • relapse,
  • souse,
  • dejectedness,
  • despondency,
  • burial,
  • drooping,
  • nervous,
  • collapse,
  • passing,
  • tumbledown,
  • progressive,
  • expiring,
  • sinking feeling,
  • career,
  • decline,
  • connote,
  • moribund,
  • coming apart,
  • addicted to,
  • cracking,
  • Sternway,
  • stream,
  • lessening,
  • bottomless,
  • tense,
  • regression,
  • heavy,
  • fluent,
  • reducing,
  • inundation,
  • abate,
  • immerse,
  • downcast,
  • cesspit,
  • Downfalling,
  • dip,
  • low,
  • gloomy,
  • imagine,
  • rush,
  • queasy,
  • gyrational,
  • rotary,
  • progress,
  • come,
  • allay,
  • intensity,
  • doting,
  • baptism,
  • assuage,
  • melancholy,
  • sink,
  • done for,
  • onrush.

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.

  • event
    going under, immersion, submersion, subsidence, submerging, subsiding, foundering, settling, submergence.

Hyponym for Sinking:

• n.

  • event
    drop-off, decrease, descent, lessening.