- New York Times Crossword
- January 27 2022
- What hearts and ships may do
What hearts and ships may do
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| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | SINK | What hearts and ships may do | New York Times |
Definition
| • | 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. |
| • | To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. |
| • | Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. |
| • | To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. |
| • | Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. |
| • | To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die. |
| • | To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. |
| • | To conseal and appropriate. |
| • | To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. |
| • | To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt. |
| • | A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole. |
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