sink

sink
v. trans.
Sink (a ship): Ar. and P. κᾰτᾰδύ̄νειν.
Put an end to: Ar. and P. διᾰλύ̄ειν, κᾰτᾰλύ̄ειν ; see end.
Let down: P. and V. κᾰθῑέναι.
Dig: P. and V. ὀρύσσειν, σκάπτειν.
Make to incline: V. κᾰταρρέπειν, P. and V. κλί̄νειν.
V. intrans. Subside, settle down: P. ἱζάνειν.
Sink under the earth: P. δύεσθαι κατὰ τῆς γῆς (Plat. Phaedo, 112c).Of the sun: P. and V. δύ̄εσθαι, δύνειν ; see set.Of a ship: Ar. and P. κᾰτᾰδύ̄εσθαι, V. βάπτειν (Eur. Or. 707).Incline downwards: P. and V. ῥέπειν.Met., be weighed down: P. and V. πιέζεσθαι, βᾰρύ̄νεσθαι.Fall: P. and V. πίπτειν, κᾰτᾰπίπτειν (Eur. Cycl.), V. πίτνειν.Fail in strength: V. προλείπειν ; see fail.Already she is sinking and like to die: V. ἤδη προνωπής ἐστι καὶ ψυχορραγεῖ (Eur. Alc. 143).His head sinks back: V. ὑπτιάζεται κάρα (Soph. Phil. 822).I sink backwards into the arms of my maidens and swoon away: V. ὑπτία δε κλίνομαι . . . πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι (Soph. Ant. 1188).She sinks back with trembling limbs: V. λεχρία πάλιν χωρεῖ τρέμουσα κῶλα (Eur. Med. 1168).Of ground dipping: see under dip.Fall away: P. and V. διαρρεῖν, ἀ̆πορρεῖν ; see fade.Deteriorate: P. ἀποκλίνειν, ἐκπίπτειν ; see degenerate.Sink into inaction: P. ἐπὶ τὸ ῥᾳθυμεῖν ἀποκλίνειν (Dem. 13).Sunk in (Met.): use P. and V. μεστός (gen.); see full of.
Be sunk in love: V. ἐντήκεσθαι τῷ φῐλεῖν (Soph. Trach. 463); see absorbed in.Be sunk in ignorance P. ἐν ἀμαθίᾳ μολύνεσθαι (Plat. Rep. 535e).Sink into, be instilled into, Met.: P. καταδύεσθαι εἰς (acc.), V. ἐντήκεσθαι (dat.).Sink into insignificance: P. ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ εἶναι.

SINK

s. latrina (for impurities). Vid : also SEWERS.

sink (subs.): sentīna (oftenest used of the lowest part or sink in the hold of a ship): cf. Sall. C. 37, hi Romam sicuti in sentinam confluxerant. (Emissarium = outlet.)

sink (v.):

A. Intrans.:

I. To settle downwards:

1. sīdo, di, 3: (gum) s.s in water, in aqua sidit, Plin. 12, 25, 54 § 121: to s. into ashes (as a house consumed in the flames), in cineres s., Prop. Fig.: to s. by its own weight (of an empire), pessum sua mole s., Sen. Const. Sap. 2 (pessum = pedes versum, downwards). Comps. (1) consīdo, sēdi, 3 (strengthened from preced., to s. down altogether, esp. on a large scale): (all Troy appeared) to s. down into the flames, c. in flammas, Virg. Aen. 2, 624: the Alps may now (without danger) s. down, Alpes jam licet considant, Cic. Prov. 14, 34: Col. (2) dēsīdo, sēdi, 3 (to s. down; to the bottom): Cic. Div. 1, 35, fin.: Varr. (3) rĕsīdo, sēdi, 3 (to s. again; subside after rising): every gust of wind sank, omnis resedit flatus, Virg. Aen. 7, 27: opp. to surgere, Ov. Am. 1, 1, 27; to attolli, Plin. Ep. 5, 17, 2 (of the rising and s.ing of the subject of a poem). (4) subsīdo, 3: the valleys s., s. valles, Ov. M. 1, 43: the streams s. (after flood), flumina s., ib. 243: v. TO SUBSIDE.

2. ruo, i, rŭtum, 3 (to s. with violence, go suddenly to ruins: whereas sido and comps. denote gradual settling down): Troy s.s headlong from its lofty height, r. alto a culmine Troja, Virg. Aen. 2, 290. So, corruo, 3 (to s. all in ruins): Cic. Top. 3, 15: Quint.

3. collābor, lapsus, 3 (to s. or fall in ruins): Liv.: Suet. Very oft. of persons s.ing in a swoon: he sank to the ground and lay for a long time half dead, collapsus diu prope intermortuus jacuit, Suet. Ner. 42: Virg.

4. when the sense is to be swallowed up, as in water, expr. by mergo, immergo, dēmergo, submergo, si, sum, 3; either as pass. refl. or in act. with pron. refl.: many ships being pierced through s., multae naves rostris perforatae merguntur, Auct. B. Alex. 46: Bootes s.s in the deep ocean, Bootes alto mergitur oceano, Cat. 66, 68 almost engulphed in the mud and s.ing (deeper and deeper), hausti paene limo immergentesque se, Liv. 22, 2: s.ing in the waters of the river, demersus fluminis undis, Ov. M. 14, 615. Fig.: a house sunk in destruction, domus demersa exitio, Hor. Od. 3, 16, 3. Phr.: the ships being overladen sank to the bottom, naves nimio onere pressas mare hausit, Tac. H. 3, 77: v. TO SWALLOW UP.

II. To penetrate deep: descendo, di, sum, 3: the weapon had not sunk deep into the body, ferrum haud alte in corpus descendisse, Liv. 1, 41. Fig., of the impression made by anything said: that remark sank deeper into Jugurtha's heart than ..., quod verbum in pectus Jugurthae altius quam ... descendit, Sall. Jug. 11.

III. To be in a declining state; go to destruction: ruo, pessum eo or sīdo, lābor, etc.: v. RUIN, I., Phr. See also supr. (I.).

IV. To lower oneself, yield to indulgences: Phr.: to s. in indolence and sensuality, ad inertiam et voluptatem corporis pessum dari (or as one word), Sall. Jug. 1. to s. into sensuality, in flagitia se ingurgitare: v. TO PLUNGE (B).

V. To fall, decline; as prices: cădo, 3; etc.. v. TO FALL (IV.).

B. Trans.:

I. To cause to go to the bottom:

1. dēprĭmo, pressi, ssum, 3: to s. a plough deep in the soil, aratrum d., Virg. G. 1, 45 esp. to s. a ship (act of war), navem d., Caes. B. C. 1, 58. Cic.

2. submergo, 3 (to submerge: not denoting, as deprimo does, a hostile act): he sunk a ship at the entrance of the harbour, faucibus portus navem submersam objecit, Caes. B. C. 3, 39: v. TO SUBMERGE.

3. dēmergo, 3 (like deprimo, to send to the bottom): Auct. B. Alex. 25 (quum triremem hostium perforasset et demersisset). See also TO PLUNGE.

II. To lower: Phr.: to s. a well, puteum demittere [alte], Virg. G. 2, 231: also, p. agere [e. g. in centum pedes], Plin. 17, 8, 4: p. defodere, id. 37, 9, 43 (al. depressis puteis).

III. To lower, degrade; take up completely: esp. in pass., to be sunk in anything: Phr.: the whole plebeian order was deeply sunk in debt, totam plebem aere alieno demersam esse, Liv. 2, 29 (v. DEBT): sunk in deep sleep and wine, somno vinoque sepultus, Virg. Aen. 2, 265: to be sunk in grief, in moerore jacere, Cic. Att. 10, 4: cf. Lucr. 1, 63, humana quum vita jaceret ... oppressa gravi sub religione, i. e. sunk beneath grievous superstition: sunk in vice, vitiis deditus; qui se in flagitia ingurgitavit, immersit: v. DEVOTED TO, also, TO PLUNGE (fin.).

IV. To invest: collŏco, 1: v. TO INVEST (III.).

V. To waste, dissipate: v. TO SQUANDER.

δύω
δύω, sink (verb)
καταδύω
to go down, sink, set
ῥέπω
to incline downwards, to sink, fall

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βυθίζω
to sink
προσκαταποντόω
sink in the sea beside
συγκαταποντόω
sink in the sea together
ἁλιβδύω
sink
ἐπιβαπτίζω
sink, overwhelm
ἠμύω
to bow down, sink, drop

descendo
to climb down, come down, descend, fall, sink
mergo
to dip, dip in, immerse, plunge, sink, bury
summitto
to let down, put down, lower, sink, drop; send secretly; substitute
corruo
to fall together, fall down, fall, tumble, sink
delabor
to fall, sink, slip down, glide down, descend
supprimo
to sink, send to the bottom
demergo
to sink, submerge, plunge, dip, immerse, bury
sido
to sit down, sink, settle, alight
succido
to fall under, sink down, sink
succumbo
to fall down, lie down, sink
languesco
to become faint, grow weak, sink, be enfeebled
immergo
to dip, plunge, sink, immerse, submerge

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appearing fewer than 50 times

desido
to sink, settle down, fall
illabor
to flow in, glide in, fall, sink
sublabor
to glide under, slip away, sink
submergo
to dip, plunge under, sink, overwhelm, submerge