Thesaurus / sinking
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It has come to this—that I open my newspaper every morning with a sinking heart, and usually I find little to console me.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSNey and Marmont did not accompany the other Commissioners with their sorrowful terms; like rats they left the sinking ship.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONThe air, motionless again, extraordinarily heated, hung in a dull and yet transparent curtain between them and the sinking sun.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThere was no pain—apparently no disease; simply a sudden sinking of the vital powers.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNEThe poor mother, in silence and sorrow, was sinking to the tomb far more rapidly than Jane imagined.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTAfter the ice passed away the movements were reversed, the northern region rising and the southern sinking down.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALERThe coast of New Jersey is now sinking at the rate of about two feet in a hundred years.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALERHe found himself lifted on the crest of huge waves, and again sinking in the depths.
THE EVERLASTING ARMSJOSEPH HOCKINGIn that case the river is said to sink, but, in place of sinking into the earth, its waters really rise into the air.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALERHe was sinking again, when Stanley Hall plunged into the water like an arrow, and caught him by the hair.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNEWORDS RELATED TO SINKING
- abatement
- backflow
- decay
- decrease
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- diminution
- drop
- dwindling
- fading away
- flagging
- going out
- lessening
- low tide
- low water
- outward flow
- petering out
- recession
- refluence
- reflux
- retreat
- retrocession
- retroflux
- shrinkage
- sinking
- slackening
- subsidence
- sweep
- wane
- waning
- weakening
- withdrawal
- abating
- declining
- diminishing
- dropping
- dwindling
- dying down
- ebbing
- fading away
- lightening
- losing momentum
- lowering
- moderating
- narrowing
- plummeting
- plunging
- quieting
- sagging
- shrinking
- shriveling up
- sinking
- slackening
- slowing
- slumping
- softening
- subsiding
- waning
- wasting
- weakening
- wearing down
- wearing off
- bad-tempered
- callous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- contemptible
- dangerous
- despicable
- difficult
- dirty
- disagreeable
- dishonorable
- down
- evil
- formidable
- hard
- hard-nosed
- ignoble
- ill-tempered
- infamous
- knavish
- liverish
- lousy
- low-down and dirty
- malicious
- malign
- nasty
- perfidious
- pesky
- rotten
- rough
- rugged
- scurrilous
- shameless
- sinking
- snide
- sour
- the lowest
- touch
- treacherous
- troublesome
- ugly
- unfriendly
- unpleasant
- unscrupulous
- vexatious
- vicious
- vile
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