Sinking
English
Verb
sinking
- Present participle of sink.
Derived terms
Noun
Sinking (plural Sinkings)- The act or process of sinking.
- I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.
Thesaurus
Brownian movement, advance, aging, angular motion, anxious, apprehensive, ascending, ascent, axial, axial motion, back, back-flowing, backflowing, backing, backward, backward motion, bad, baptism, burial, career, climbing, collapsing, coming apart, concavity, course, cracking, crumbling, current, de-escalation, debasement, decadent, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decurrent, deepening, degenerate, degradation, dejected, demotion, depressed, depression, descendant, descending, descent, desolate, despaired of, despairing, deteriorating, detrusion, digging, diminishing, diminution, dip, dipping, disintegrating, doleful, dolorous, done for, doting, dousing, down, down-reaching, down-trending, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, downward motion, draining, drift, driftage, drifting, drilling, drooping, dropping, duck, ducking, dunking, dwindling, dying, ebbing, effete, engulfment, excavation, expiring, facing death, fading, failing, falling, flagging, flight, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, flying, forlorn, forward motion, fragmenting, fretful, getting on, given up, going, going to pieces, growing old, gyrational, gyratory, hauling down, heavy-laden, hollowness, hopeless, immergence, immersion, in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, inundation, jittery, jumpy, languishing, low, lowering, marcescent, mining, miserable, moribund, mounting, mournful, near death, nervous, nonviable, oblique motion, on the descendant, on the downgrade, ongoing, onrush, passage, passing, pining, plummeting, plunging, probing, progress, progressive, queasy, radial motion, random motion, receding, reduction, reflowing, refluence, refluent, reflux, regression, regressive, retiring, retreating, retrograde, retrogression, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, run, running, rush, rushing, sagging, senescent, set, setting, shaky, shrinking, shriveling, sideward, sideward motion, sinkage, sliding, slipping, slipping away, slumping, soaring, souse, sousing, sternway, stream, streaming, stricken, submergence, submerging, submersion, subsiding, tabetic, tense, terminal, thrusting under, tottering, traject, trajet, trend, tumbledown, tunneling, uneasy, unquiet, up-trending, upward, upward motion, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, woeful, worsening
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
