Clues for the word "SINK"
We've had 126 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 240 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on July 11, 2026.
Definition of sink
- 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 enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
- v. i. - Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
- 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.
- v. i. - To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- v. t. - To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
- 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.
- v. t. - To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
- v. t. - To conseal and appropriate.
- v. t. - To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
- v. t. - To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
- n. - A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
- 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.
- n. - A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
Referring Clues
- Descend
- Swim's alternative
- Make, as a putt
- Settle
- Scuttle
- Wash-up spot
- Become understood, with "in"
- Send down
- Dirty dishes locale
- Kind of feeling
- Plummet
- Where dirty dishes pile up
- Go down
- Drop to the bottom
- Dishwasher's location, often
- Laundry room item
- Kitchen fixture
- Make a putt
- Go to the bottom
- Hole, as a putt
- Holder of dirty dishes
- Founder
- Become clear, with "in"
- Drop
- Fall
- Kitchen basin
- Invest, so to speak
- Lose altitude
- Slope downward
- Succumb to quicksand
- Trap topper
- Swim alternative
- Kitchen essential
- Pile-of-dishes place
- Dirty dishes collector
- Ruin
- Go into depth?
- Spot for scrubbing
- Fail to float
- Emulate Atlantis
- Dip
- Prove not buoyant
- Go under
- Basin
- Put in the hole
- Fall slowly
- Dirty dishes site
- Fall through water
- Kohler product
- Make, as a shot
- Make, as a basket in basketball
- Hole on the green
- Subside
- Drop in the ocean
- Go down with the ship
- Bathroom fixture
- *Geologic danger
- Place for plates
- Deteriorate
- Settle gradually
- Kitchen drain locale
- Descend to Davy Jones' locker
- Submerge
- Spot for dirty dishes
- Emulate the Titanic
- Drop in the ocean?
- Kitchen feature
- Go down for some drinks in kitchen
- Fall to the bottom of the ocean
- Go down like a rock
- Reach bottom?
- It's in the kitchen
- Unfortunately reach the ocean floor
- Do like the Titanic
- Gaslight Anthem "___ or Swim"
- Washing facility
- "___ to the Bottom" Fountains of Wayne
- Basin for washing up etc
- Pocket (billiards)
- Go under - basin
- Drop beneath the water - kitchen appliance
- Scene of iniquity or washing up
- Go down (in the kitchen?)
- Become submerged
- Decline - in the kitchen
- (Cause to) become submerged
- Descend into water
- Misbehave at the "King's Head" and disappear
- Disappear below the surface
- Go down to wash up
- Make, as a basketball three-pointer
- Penetrate the mind, ___ in
- Decline to do wrong for money?
- Pot popular among South Korean leaders
- Decline
- Droop, submerge
- Place in which to wash pot
- Pocket, as a billiard ball
- "Everything but" appurtenance
- Decline and fall from grace with king
- Go down its plughole?
- Cleaning area
- Drop in the ocean?
- Drop gradually
- What hearts do when things look bad
- Set, as the sun
- Basin with a water supply
- Yield to quicksand
- Kitchen drain's locale
- Scuttle at sea
- Approach the bottom
- One of two in a double vanity
- What things do in quicksand
- Go down like a stone
- What some ships and hearts do
- Everything but the kitchen ___
- Roll into the hole, as a putt
- Fixture with a faucet
- Sag
- What hearts and ships may do
- Garbage disposal's place
- Place to wash up
- Garbage disposal spot
- What rocks do in water
- Head toward bankruptcy, say
- Dishwasher's station
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - July 11, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 30, 2026
- LA Times - June 23, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 15, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 27, 2026
- Daily American - May 15, 2026
- LA Times - May 10, 2026
- New York Times - April 12, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 15, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - October 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 27, 2025
- Daily American - February 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 26, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 22, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 14, 2024
- New York Times - September 30, 2024
- LA Times - July 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 24, 2024
- Daily American - May 14, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 11, 2024
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