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The unsinkable had sunk, and taken with it half of its passengers and crew.The sun sank and darkness fell on the island.Pierce sank a 3-point basket two minutes into the game.Hundreds of passengers tried desperately to escape from the boat as it sank.The stock index had sunk 197.92 points by midday.→ sink in → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus sink 17 ball DSG to put a ball into a hole or basket in games such as golf or basketball 18 → sink your differences 19 drink British English informal DRINK to drink alcohol, especially in large quantities We sank a few pints at the pub first. 15 → sink or swim 16 money to spend a lot of money on something sink something in/into something They sank their entire savings into their house. 14 dig into ground DIG if you sink something such as a well or part of a building, you dig a hole to put it into the ground A well was sunk in the back garden, and water could be pumped up into the kitchen. 9 → sinking feeling 10 → be sunk 11 → sink without trace 12 → sink so low 13 use something sharp PUT to put your teeth or something sharp into someone’s flesh, into food etc sink something into something The dog sank its teeth into my arm. 8 voice written QUIET if your voice sinks, it becomes very quiet sink to/into Her voice sank to a whisper. sink to The population of the village sank to just a few families.

6 → your heart sinks 7 lower amount/value VALUE# LESS to go down in amount or value SYN drop OPP rise Shares in the company have sunk as low as 620p. The doctor said that the boy was sinking fast (=getting weaker and about to die ). The good mood left me and I sank into depression. 5 get worse WORSE to gradually get into a worse condition sink into They lost all their money and sank into desperate poverty. The minister sank to his knees (=he went down into a kneeling position ) and prayed. He let go of her shoulders and she sank at once to the floor. 4 fall/sit down FALL to fall down or sit down heavily, especially because you are very tired and weak sink into/to/down/back etc She let out a groan and sank into a chair.

Her chin sank onto her chest, and she looked despairing. 3 move lower to move downwards to a lower level The sun was sinking behind the coconut palms.

2 boat to damage a ship so badly that it sinks A luxury yacht was sunk in a bomb attack yesterday. The heavy guns sank up to their barrels in the mud. The kids watched as the coin sank to the bottom of the pool.

W3 verb ( past tense sank / sæŋk / or sunk / sʌŋk / American English, past participle sunk / sʌŋk / ) 1 in water to go down below the surface of water, mud etc OPP float Their motorboat struck a rock and began to sink.

If you're speaking American English, be aware that some people hold to the idea that dived is the only proper past tense of dive, but also know that you may get some funny looks if you use dived in the States.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Golf sink sink 1 / sɪŋk / But a survey of the evidence for dive shows that dove is actually twice as common as dived is nowadays in American English, whereas dived is more common in British English. So if dove is a modern invention, you shouldn't use it, right? Some people will tell you that-that the correct past tense of dive is dived. Wink and think look related to drink, sink, and stink, but they aren't: we can tell by the forms they've carried with them into Modern English: wink/winked/winked and think/thought/thought. Drink, sink, and stink all happen to come from the same group of Old English verbs, which is why they share inflections in Modern English. Most of our irregular verb inflections aren't based on the Modern English infinitive form, but the infinitive form of the etymon. The past tense of drive is drove, and so, we reason that dive's should be dove.īut what we want and what we have are two different things. And some do: drink/drank/drunk and sink/sank/sunk. If the past tense and past participle of stink are stank and stunk, respectively, then any verb ending in - ink should, to our minds, follow the same pattern. With verbs, we do that by sorting them into groups based on their infinitive form. English speakers like their language to make sense, so they create order out of what looks like chaos. How did that happen, and why, for the love of all verbs, would you complicate something that heretofore has been so simple? Drive is to Drove as Dive is to Doveīlame drive. But in the 1800s, it suddenly gained an irregular past tense- dove. "Dive" suddenly gained a new past tense in the 1800sĭive is a regular verb whose past tense, since about 1300, has been dived.