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)
  • Plunging,
  • downward,
  • declining,
  • sliding.
  •dying (adjective)
  • at death's door,
  • in extremis.
  •low (adjective)
  • lower.

• n.

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

• v.

  •depressing (verb)
  • Attenuating,
  • debasing,
  • depressing,
  • lowering.
  •descending (verb)
  • dropping,
  • settling,
  • falling down,
  • nose-diving,
  • coming down,
  • plummeting,
  • descendent,
  • toppling,
  • tumbling.
  •deteriorating (verb)
  • 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.
  •disappearing (verb)
  • vanishing,
  • fleeing,
  • departing,
  • melting,
  • Evaporating,
  • going,
  • dissolving,
  • flying,
  • disappearing,
  • hiding,
  • Evanescing.
  •immersing (verb)
  • Inundating,
  • submerging,
  • bathing,
  • Immersing,
  • dunking,
  • Drowning,
  • flooding,
  • Dipping,
  • dousing,
  • Engulfing,
  • Wallowing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fall,
  • glide,
  • dip,
  • rise,
  • aging.
  •
  • wreck.
  •catastrophe
  • disaster.
  •incurable
  • moribund.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Sinking:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    dive, diving, demise, destruction, amortization.
  • 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.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    shipwreck, Drowning, drowned.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    wreckage, disaster, deflection, downfall, accident, shipwreck, Drowning, draught, loss.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    dropping, Drowning.

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.