Decrease and Sink

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• Plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe.
• Technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system. (
  • usage: "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide"
• A depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof.
  • synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole
• A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it.
  • synonyms: cesspool, cesspit, sump

verb

• Fall or descend to a lower place or level.
  • usage: "He sank to his knees"
  • synonyms: drop, drop down
• Cause to sink.
  • usage: "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor"
• Pass into a specified state or condition.
  • usage: "He sank into nirvana"
  • synonyms: pass, lapse
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: settle, go down, go under
• Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place.
  • usage: "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair"
  • synonyms: subside
• Appear to move downward.
  • usage: "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
  • synonyms: dip
• Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly.
  • usage: "The real estate market fell off"
  • synonyms: slump, fall off
• Fall or sink heavily.
  • usage: "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank"
  • synonyms: slump, slide down
• Embed deeply.
  • usage: "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"
  • synonyms: bury

• (n.) The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River.
• (v.i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
• (v.t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
• (v.t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
• (v.i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
• (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
• (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.
• (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.
• (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
• (v.t.) To conseal and appropriate.
• (v.i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
• (v.t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.