sink

/sɪŋk/

US pronunciation

American sound/sɪŋk/

sink

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> sink

Myanmar meaning

(n) ၁။မီးဖိုပနျးကနျဆေးကနျ။ ၂။လကျဆေးကနျ။ မကြျနှာသဈကနျ။ sinks (v) မွုပျသညျ။ နဈသညျ။ မွှုပျသညျ။ နှဈသညျ။ ဒုက်ခရောကျစသေညျ။ ဒုက်ခရောကျသညျ။ နိမ့ျဆငျးသညျ။ ကြှံဝငျသညျ။ ပုံလကြျသားကသြညျ။ ကဆြငျးသညျ။ ဆုတျယုတျသညျ။ လြော့ပါးသညျ။ သူသလေုမွောပါးဖွဈနပွေီ။ တိမျဝငျသှားသညျ။ (က) တိုငျစိုကျသညျ။ (ခ) တှငျးစသညျတူးသညျ။ ဂေါကျသီး၊ဘိလိယကျ၊ဘောလုံးစသညျကငြျးစိနျသညျ။ အနီလုံးကိုထိပျကတှငျးထဲဝငျအောငျထိုးသညျ။ ယမကာမော့သညျ။ မြိုသညျ။ ငူနသေညျ။ ငေါငျနသေညျ။ အတှေးနကျနသေညျ။ ပွနျလညျသင့ျမွတျသညျ။ ရငျကွားစေ့သညျ။ အခွအေနသေိပျမဟနျဟူသောအသိ၊ခံစားမှု။ ကိုယ့ျသူ့ထိုကျနှင့ျကိုယ့ျသူ့ကံလြောကျလြားပဲ။ စိမ့ျဝငျသညျ။ နားဝငျသညျ။ သဘောပေါကျသညျ။ အခွအေနသေို့သကျဆငျးကရြောကျသညျ။ မွုပျသှားအောငျလှီး၊ကိုကျ၊ထိုးသှငျးသညျ။ ရငျးနှီးမွှုပျနံှသညျ။ sinks, sinked, sinking

Full entry

sink /sÇŋk/ v (pt sank /sæŋk/; pp sunk /sʌŋk/)

၁။ မြုပ်သည်။ နစ်သည်။ If you throw a stone into water, it sinks. ❍ The ship sank (to the bottom of the ocean). ❍ My feet sank (down) into the mud.
၂။ မြှုပ်သည်။ နှစ်သည်။ a battleship sunk by a torpedo.
၃။ (infml ) ဒုက္ခရောက်စေသည်။ ဒုက္ခ ရောက်သည်။ The press want to sink his bid for the Presidency. ❍ We'll be sunk if the car breaks down.
၄။ နိမ့်ဆင်းသည်။ ကျွံဝင်သည်။ ပုံလျက်သားကျသည်။ The foundations of the house are beginning to sink. ❍ The sun was sinking in the west. ❍ The wounded animal sank to the ground, defeated. ❍ I sank (down) into an armchair.
၅။ ကျဆင်းသည်။ ဆုတ်ယုတ်သည်။ လျော့ပါးသည်။ Share prices are sinking. ❍ The pound has sunk to its lowest recorded level against the dollar. ❍ He is sinking fast. သူ သေလုမြောပါးဖြစ်နေပြီ။ ❍ (fig ) Stealing from your friends? How could you sink to this/sink so low? မိတ်ဆွေတွေဆီက ခိုးတယ်ဆို၊ ဒီလောက်တောင် ယုတ်ကန်းရ သလား။
၆။ တိမ်ဝင်သွားသည်။ Her voice sank to a whisper.
၇။ (က) (တိုင်)စိုက်သည်။ sink a post (into the ground). (ခ) (တွင်းစသည်)တူးသည်။ sink a well/shaft.
၈။ (ဂေါက်သီး၊ ဘိလိယက်၊ ဘောလုံး စသည်) ကျင်းစိန်သည်။ sink the red into the top pocket အနီလုံးကို ထိပ်ကတွင်းထဲ ဝင်အောင် ထိုးသည်။ ❍ He sank a 12-foot putt to win the match.
၉။ (infml ) (ယမကာ)မော့သည်။ မျိုသည်။ They sank a whole bottle of gin between them. နှစ်ယောက်တည်း ဂျင်တစ်ပုလင်းလုံးကုန်အောင် မော့ပစ်လိုက်ကြသည်။
n (က) (မီးဖို) ပန်းကန်ဆေးကန်။ a sink unit (ie a sink with drawers and cupboards underneath).(ခ) လက်ဆေးကန်။ မျက်နှာသစ်ကန်။
❏ be sunk in sth [IDM ] ငူနေသည်။ ငေါင်နေသည်။ အတွေး နက်နေသည်။ She just sat there, sunk in gloom.
❏ sink one's differences [IDM ] ပြန်လည်သင့်မြတ်သည်။ ရင်ကြားစေ့သည်။ We must sink our differences in order to save the company.
❏ a/that sinking feeling [IDM ] (infml ) အခြေအနေ သိပ်မဟန်ဟူသော အသိ၊ ခံစားမှု။ I had that horrible sinking feeling when I saw the ambulance outside the house.
❏ sink or swim [IDM ] ကိုယ့်(သူ့)ထိုက်နှင့်ကိုယ့်(သူ့)ကံ လျောက်လျားပဲ။ With no more government aid the company was left to sink or swim.
❏ sink in / sink into sth [PHRV ]
၁။ စိမ့်ဝင်သည်။ Rub the cream on your skin and let it sink in. ❍ The rain sank into the dry ground.
၂။ နားဝင်သည်။ သဘောပေါက်သည်။ He paused for a moment to let his words sink in. ❍ It took a long time for the truth to sink in.
❏ sink into sth [PHRV ] (no passive) (အခြေအနေသို့) သက်ဆင်းကျရောက်သည်။ sink into sleep/ a coma ❍ She sank deeper into depression.
❏ sink sth into sth [PHRV ]
၁။ မြုပ်သွားအောင် လှီး၊ ကိုက်၊ ထိုးသွင်းသည်။ sink a knife into butter ❍ The dog sank its teeth into my leg (ie bit it).
၂။ ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံသည်။ They sank all their savings into the venture.

More examples

The ship sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a storm.
Do you think the cork will float or sink?
The enemy sank three ships last night.
[sink into] : Our feet sank into the mud as we walked.
The water level in the lake had sunk by several feet.
The porch on the old house was beginning to sink.
[sink to] : The wounded deer sank to the ground.
[sink to your knees] : He sank to his knees and begged for forgiveness.
[sink into] : When I got home, all I wanted to do was sink into a hot bath.
[sinking fast] : The patient is sinking fast and may not last through the night.
[sink into crisis/chaos] : Without a stable central government, the country is sinking into crisis.
[sink into despair] : As the search went on, Simon began to sink into despair.
After reading the letter, my spirits sank even further.
Her heart sank when she heard the result.
The sun was sinking in the west.
The dollar sank even lower yesterday on world markets.
[sink to] : Agricultural production had sunk to its lowest level in years.
Their voices sank to a whisper.
[sink to (doing) something] : How could you sink to stealing money from your own mother?
[sink so low (as to)] : I never thought he would sink so low as to lie to me about it.
The cat sank its claws into my leg.
We’ve sunk several thousand dollars into the project so far.
He only has to sink the pink ball to win the game.

Synonyms

go under, go down, go under the surface, be submerged, go downwards, descend, drop, abase, abate, basin, be reduced to, bemean, bore, bowl, bring down, capsize, cast down, cave in, collapse, couch, debase, decay, decline, decrease, degenerate, degrade, demean, demit, depreciate, depress, deteriorate, die, dig, diminish, dip, disappear, disimprove, disintegrate, drill, drive, droop, drown, dwindle, ebb, engulf, excavate, fade, fail, fall, fall in, flag, flounder, force down, founder, go downhill, go to the bottom, hand basin, humiliate, immerse, lapse, lay, lessen, let down, lower, mine, overturn, overwhelm, plummet, plunge, put down, ram, regress, relapse, retrograde, retrogress, rot, run, sag, scuttle, set, settle, shipwreck, slip, slope, slump, spoil, stab, stick, stoop, submerge, subside, succumb, swamp, thrust, tip over, touch bottom, wane, wash-hand basin, waste, weaken, worsen, wreck

Antonyms

ascend, brave, build, develop, elevate, enhance, enlarge, excite, expand, extend, fight, float, flourish, go up, grow, halt, honor, improve, increase, laud, lift, neglect, praise, prolong, raise, rise, strengthen, succeed, underwhelm, upgrade