sinking

English

Etymology

From sink +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
• Hyphenation: sink‧ing

Noun

sinking (plural sinkings)

1. gerund of sink: the process by which something sinks, or is sunk.

   I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.

   • 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:

     We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district […]

   • 2022 August 10, “Network News: New maintenance tunnel at Euston”, in RAIL, number 963, page 21:

     The excavation took 16 months of 24-hour working to complete and required the sinking of a 65ft shaft, from where workers carved out the passageway and lined it with reinforced steel and sprayed concrete.

Derived terms

• sinking feeling

Translations

process by which something sinks, or is sunk

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: потъване (bg) n (potǎvane) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: forlis n Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: uppoaminen (fi) French: naufrage (fr) m (of a ship) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Untergang (de) m Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: affondamento (it) m, naufragio (it) m (of a ship) Japanese: 沈没 (ja) Korean: 침몰 (ko) (chimmol) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: totohutanga Norwegian: Bokmål: forlis (no) n Polish: tonięcie (pl) n Portuguese: naufrágio (pt) m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: потопле́ние (ru) n (potoplénije), круше́ние (ru) n (krušénije) (shipwreck), ги́бель (ru) f (gíbelʹ) (of a ship due to a violent or unnatural cause) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: hundimiento, naufragio (es) Swedish: förlisning c Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Verb

sinking

1. present participle and gerund of sink

Derived terms

• like rats from a sinking ship
• sinking fund

Further reading

• sinking (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• inkings