Usually means: Descending below the surface level.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinking: Merriam-Webster
  2. sinking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sinking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sinking, sinking: Wordnik
  5. sinking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sinking: Wiktionary
  7. sinking: Dictionary.com
  8. sinking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sinking (album), Sinking (behavior), Sinking (disambiguation), Sinking (metalworking), Sinking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Sinking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. sinking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. sinking: Rhymezone
  13. Sinking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sinking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. sinking: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sinking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sinking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinking: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sinking: Idioms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Sinking)

▸ noun:  Sinking, also known as doming, dishing or dapping, is a metalworking technique whereby flat sheet metal is formed into a non-flat object by hammering it into a concave indentation.
▸ noun:  the second studio album by British electronic music group the Aloof, released by East West Records in the United Kingdom on 27 May 1996.
▸ noun:  a novella written by Yu Dafu.

Similar:
sinking feeling, downwelling, diesinking, suffosion, dissolving, sousing, rotting, flowdown, dissolvement, saturation, more...

Opposite:
rising, ascending, soaring, climbing, elevating

Types:
shipwreck, submersion, capsizing, foundering, swamping, going down, settling, submergence, more...

Phrases:
sinking fund, sinking into, sinking in, sinking feeling, sinking ship, more...

Adjectives:
sudden, gradual, slow, well, shaft, rapid, fast, die, deep, slight, strange

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Similar:
sinking feeling, downwelling, diesinking, suffosion, dissolving, sousing, rotting, flowdown, dissolvement, saturation, more...

Opposite:
rising, ascending, soaring, climbing, elevating

Types:
shipwreck, submersion, capsizing, foundering, swamping, going down, settling, submergence, more...

Phrases:
sinking fund, sinking into, sinking in, sinking feeling, sinking ship, sinking funds, sinking ships, Shaft sinking, sinking spell, sinking spells, caisson sinking, a sinking feeling, sinking fund requirement, more...

Adjectives:
sudden, gradual, slow, well, shaft, rapid, fast, die, deep, slight, strange

Colors:
    dark blue,     charcoal,     slate gray,     deep teal,     midnight blue, more...



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