Usually means: Submerged or went below water.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word sank:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sank: Merriam-Webster
  3. sank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sank: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sank: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sank, sank: Wordnik
  8. sank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sank: Wiktionary
  10. sank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sank: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sank: Dictionary.com
  14. sank: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Sank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sank: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sank: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. sank: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sank: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sank: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sank: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sank: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
verb:  (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
verb:  (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
verb:  (transitive) To push (something) into something.
verb:  (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
verb:  (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
verb:  (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
verb:  (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
verb:  (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
verb:  (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
verb:  (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
verb:  (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To die.
verb:  (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
noun:  A basin used for holding water for washing.
noun:  A drain for carrying off wastewater.
noun:  (geology) A sinkhole.
noun:  A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
noun:  A heat sink.
noun:  A place that absorbs resources or energy.
noun:  (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
noun:  (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
noun:  (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
noun:  (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
noun:  (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
noun:  (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
noun:  An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
noun:  A depression in a stereotype plate.
noun:  (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
noun:  (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
noun:  (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
noun:  A surname.
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