sinking

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sink

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English sinking

From sink + -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋkɪŋ/

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• 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.

Translations

process by which something sinks, or is sunk

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: غَرَق (ḡaraq)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: потъване (bg) n (potǎvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下沉 (zh) (xiàchén), 沉沒 / 沉没 (zh) (chénmò)

• 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
• Māori: 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 (es), 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

• diesinking
• like rats from a sinking ship
• sinking feeling
• sinking fund
• sinking heart
• unsinking

Further reading

• sinking (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• inkings