Crossword-Solution: SINKING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sinking | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Sink |
| Sinking | - | a. & n. from Sink. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SINKING | anagram | INKINGS |
We have 28 clues for the answer “SINKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a slow fall or decline | 1 answer |
| FALL in scale | 2 answers |
| Kind of fund. | 3 answers |
| Kind of feeling | 3 answers |
| GOING down | 6 answers |
| Low place | 7 answers |
| shipwreck | 7 answers |
| DOWNWARD curve | 10 answers |
| dipping | 28 answers |
| Tensing | 43 answers |
| degenerating | 43 answers |
| flexing | 43 answers |
| metamorphosing | 43 answers |
| shrivelling | 43 answers |
| tightening | 44 answers |
| truncation | 44 answers |
| constricting | 44 answers |
| altering | 44 answers |
| withdrawing | 45 answers |
| contracting | 47 answers |
| waning | 49 answers |
| deteriorating | 49 answers |
| Abridgement | 50 answers |
| reducing | 50 answers |
| decrement | 50 answers |
| abating | 51 answers |
| compendium | 56 answers |
| Declining | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SINKING (5)
But Peter had no sinking, he had one feeling only, gladness; and he gnashed his pretty teeth with joy.
Once as down that foaming river, Down the rapids of Pauwating, Kwasind sailed with his companions, In the stream he saw a beaver, Saw Ahmeek, the King of Beavers, Struggling with the rushing currents, Rising, sinking in the water.
But a very great tempest came on, and the ship being in danger of sinking, he threw all his merchandise overboard, and barely escaped with his life in the empty ship.
They placed the calf beside its mother again, took up the lantern, and went out, the light sinking down the hill till it was no more than a nebula.
Now she caught the low undertone, as of the wind sinking down to repose itself; then ascended with it, as it rose through progressive gradations of sweetness and power, until its volume seemed to envelop her with an atmosphere of awe and solemn grandeur.
Quotes with SINKING (3)
She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out — your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it…
This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1954–2005).