Sink one's differences

Definition

sink /sÇŋk/ v ( pt sank /sæŋk/; pp sunk /sʌŋk/) ၁။ ျမဳပ္သည္။ နစ္သည္။ 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။ ျမႇဳပ္သည္။ ႏွစ္သည္။ a battleship sunk by a torpedo. ၃။ ( infml ) ဒုကၡေရာက္ေစသည္။ ဒုကၡ ေရာက္သည္။ The press want to sink his bid for the Presidency. ❍ We'll be sunk if the car breaks down. ၄။ နိမ့္ဆင္းသည္။ ကြၽံဝင္သည္။ ပံုလ်က္သားက်သည္။ 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။ က်ဆင္းသည္။ ဆုတ္ယုတ္သည္။ ေလ်ာ့ပါးသည္။ Share prices are sinking. ❍ The pound has sunk to its lowest recorded level against the dollar. ❍ He is sinking fast. သူ ေသလုေျမာပါးျဖစ္ေနၿပီ။ ❍ ( fig ) Stealing from your friends? How could you sink to this/sink so low? မိတ္ေဆြေတြဆီက ခိုးတယ္ဆို၊ ဒီေလာက္ေတာင္ ယုတ္ကန္းရ သလား။ ၆။ တိမ္ဝင္သြားသည္။ Her voice sank to a whisper. ၇။ (က) (တိုင္)စိုက္သည္။ sink a post (into the ground). (ခ) (တြင္းစသည္)တူးသည္။ sink a well/shaft. ၈။ (ေဂါက္သီး၊ ဘိလိယက္၊ ေဘာလံုး စသည္) က်င္းစိန္သည္။ sink the red into the top pocket အနီလံုးကို ထိပ္ကတြင္းထဲ ဝင္ေအာင္ ထိုးသည္။ ❍ He sank a 12-foot putt to win the match. ၉။ ( infml ) (ယမကာ)ေမာ့သည္။ မ်ဳိသည္။ They sank a whole bottle of gin between them. ႏွစ္ေယာက္တည္း ဂ်င္တစ္ပုလင္းလံုးကုန္ေအာင္ ေမာ့ပစ္လိုက္ၾကသည္။ n (က) (မီးဖို) ပန္းကန္ေဆးကန္။ a sink unit (ie a sink with drawers and cupboards underneath). (ခ) လက္ေဆးကန္။ မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ကန္။ ❏ be sunk in sth [ IDM ] ငူေနသည္။ ေငါင္ေနသည္။ အေတြး နက္ေနသည္။ She just sat there, sunk in gloom. ❏ sink one's differences [ IDM ] ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္သည္။ ရင္ၾကားေစ့သည္။ We must sink our differences in order to save the company. ❏ a/that sinking feeling [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေျခအေန သိပ္မဟန္ဟူေသာ အသိ၊ ခံစားမႈ။ I had that horrible sinking feeling when I saw the ambulance outside the house. ❏ sink or swim [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္(သူ႕)ထိုက္ႏွင့္ကိုယ့္(သူ႕)ကံ ေလ်ာက္လ်ားပဲ။ With no more government aid the company was left to sink or swim. ❏ sink in / sink into sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ စိမ့္ဝင္သည္။ Rub the cream on your skin and let it sink in. ❍ The rain sank into the dry ground. ၂။ နားဝင္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ 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) (အေျခအေနသို႔) သက္ဆင္းက်ေရာက္သည္။ sink into sleep/ a coma ❍ She sank deeper into depression. ❏ sink sth into sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျမဳပ္သြားေအာင္ လီွး၊ ကိုက္၊ ထိုးသြင္းသည္။ sink a knife into butter ❍ The dog sank its teeth into my leg (ie bit it). ၂။ ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံသည္။ They sank all their savings into the venture.

Examples

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