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SINKING

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

SINKING is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

SINKING root SINK-ing

Word family

SINK 1 SINKS-s 2 SANK 1 SUNK 1 SUNKEN 3

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SINKINGS 11
verb
  1. ergativephysicalTo descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
    • A stone sinks in water. The sun gradually sank in the west.
  2. physicaltransitiveTo (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
    • An iceberg sank the Titanic. British battleships sank the Bismarck.
  3. physicaltransitiveTo push (something) into something.
    • The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards. The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.
  4. physicaltransitiveTo make by digging or delving.
    • to sink a well in the ground
  5. physicaltransitiveTo pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
  6. figurativelyintransitiveTo experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
  7. figurativelytransitiveTo cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
    • to sink one's reputation
  8. intransitiveTo demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
  9. archaicslangtransitiveTo conceal and appropriate.
  10. archaicslangtransitiveTo keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
  11. slangtransitiveTo drink (especially something alcoholic).
  12. slangtransitiveTo pay absolutely.
    • I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.
  13. archaicslangtransitiveTo reduce or extinguish by payment.
    • to sink the national debt
  14. intransitiveTo be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  15. archaicintransitiveTo die.
  16. intransitiveTo decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
noun
  1. A basin used for holding water for washing.
  2. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
  3. A sinkhole.
  4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
  5. A heat sink.
  6. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
  7. A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
  8. uncountableDescending motion; descent.
    • An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.
  9. uncountableThe motion of a sinker pitch.
    • Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
  10. An object or callback that captures events.
  11. A destination vertex in a transportation network.
  12. A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
  13. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
  14. A depression in a stereotype plate.
  15. A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
  16. An excavation smaller than a shaft.
  17. One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.