Verb (used without object) : The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows. ,The river sank two feet during the dry spell. ,The tower is slowly sinking. ,He gasped and sank to his knees. ,The field sinks toward the highway. ,the sun sinks in the west. ,Wipe the oil off before it sinks into the wood. ,to sink into slumber. ,sunk in thought. She sank into despair. ,to sink into poverty. ,The temperature sank to 30° at noon. ,Her voice sank to a whisper. ,He said it four times before the words really sank in. ,He sank down on the bench. From Dictionary.com.
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Well, ninety-six years to the day after the greatest millenial monument to mankind’s hubris- aka the RMS Titanic- went to an ignominious and watery grave, we may be a little closer to figuring out why the ‘unsinkable’ ship proved to be, in fact, spectacularly sinkable. From Wordnik.com. [Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Titanic as structurally sound as an Ikea desk, apparently] Reference
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Non-sinkable. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference
Non-sinkable -- that's the word. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference
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