Crossword-Solution: SINK 4 letters, 225 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Sink	v. i.	To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
Sink	v. i.	To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
Sink	v. i.	Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Sink	v. i.	To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
Sink	v. i.	To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
Sink	v. t.	To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
Sink	v. t.	Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
Sink	v. t.	To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
Sink	v. t.	To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
Sink	v. t.	To conseal and appropriate.
Sink	v. t.	To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
Sink	v. t.	To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
Sink	n.	A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
Sink	n.	A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
Sink	n.	A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SINK	anagram	INKS, KINS, NIKS, SKIN

We have 225 clues for the answer “SINK”

Clue	Answers
"___ the Bismarck!": 1960 film	1 answer
*Geologic danger	1 answer
A water basin fitted to the wall	1 answer
Act more dense?	1 answer
Kitchen basin for dish duty	1 answer
Approach the bottom	1 answer
BUOY (ant.)	1 answer
Baby's bathtub, often	1 answer
Basement fixture, sometimes	1 answer
Be more dense than water, say	1 answer
Become clear, with "in"	1 answer
Become submerged	1 answer
Become understood, with "in"	1 answer
Cleaning area	1 answer
Descend slowly	1 answer
Descend to Davy Jones' locker	1 answer
Dirty dish's destination	1 answer
Dirty dishes collector	1 answer
Dirty dishes locale	1 answer
Disappear below the surface	1 answer
Dishwasher's location, often	1 answer
Disposal's location	1 answer
Drop to the bottom	1 answer
Emulate Atlantis	1 answer
Emulate the Titanic	1 answer
Everything but the kitchen ___	1 answer
Evil king to fall	1 answer
FALL to bottom	1 answer
Fail to float	1 answer
Fall slowly	1 answer
Fall through water	1 answer
Fixture with a faucet	1 answer
Garbage disposal's place	1 answer
Gaslight Anthem "___ or Swim"	1 answer
Get sent down to the lower leagues?	1 answer
Go down like a stone	1 answer
Go into depth?	1 answer
Head for the bottom	1 answer
Holder of dirty dishes	1 answer
Hole on the green	1 answer
Hole, as a putt	1 answer
Humboldt ___.	1 answer
In___Erator (disposal brand)	1 answer
Invest capital in	1 answer
Invest, so to speak	1 answer
Kitchen drain locale	1 answer
Kitchen drain's locale	1 answer
Kitchen essential	1 answer
Kohler product	1 answer
Make a Putt First to , usually	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EREAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SINK (5)

Then all thy Saints assembl’d, thou shalt judge Bad men and Angels, they arraignd shall sink Beneath thy Sentence; Hell, her numbers full, Thenceforth shall be for ever shut.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The meek sheep were pushed into the pool by Coggan and Matthew Moon, who stood by the lower hatch, immersed to their waists; then Gabriel, who stood on the brink, thrust them under as they swam along, with an instrument like a crutch, formed for the purpose, and also for assisting the exhausted animals when the wool became saturated and they began to sink.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Some EMACS versions running under window managers iconify as an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one feature the editor does not (yet) include.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

The lower strata of the middle class—the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants—all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by the new methods of production.

The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1993

Quotes with SINK (3)

With a chaste heart With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty Holding the leash of blood So that it might leap out and trace your outline Where you lie down in my Ode As in a land of forests or in surf In aromatic loam, or in sea music Beautiful nude Equally beautiful your feet Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound Your ears, small shells Of the splendid American sea Your breasts of level plentitude Fulfilled by living light Your flying eyelids of wheat Revealing or enclosing …

Pablo Neruda

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

What is so often said about the solders of the 20th century is that they fought to make us free. Which is a wonderful sentiment and one witch should evoke tremendous gratitude if in fact there was a shred of truth in that statement but, it's not true. It's not even close to true in fact it's the opposite of truth. There's this myth around that people believe that the way to honor deaths of so many of millions of people; that the way to honor is to say that we achieved some ta…

Stefan Molyneux

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 200 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).