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===verb transitive===

[[sink]] (a [[ship]]): [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[καταδύνειν]].

[[put an end to]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[διαλύω]], [[διαλύειν]], [[καταλύω]], [[καταλύειν]]; see [[end]].

[[let down]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[καθιέναι]].

[[dig]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ὀρύσσειν]], [[σκάπτειν]].

[[make to incline]]: [[verse|V.]] [[καταρρέπειν]], [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κλίνειν]]. 

===verb intransitive===

[[subside]], [[settle down]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἱζάνειν]].

[[sink under the earth]]: [[prose|P.]] [[δύεσθαι κατὰ τῆς γῆς]] ([[Plato]], ''Phaedo'', 112C).

of the [[sun]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[δύεσθαι]], [[δύνειν]]; see [[set]].

of a [[ship]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[καταδύεσθαι]], [[verse|V.]] [[βάπτειν]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Orestes]]'' 707).

[[incline downwards]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ῥέπειν]].

Met., [[be weighed down]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[πιέζεσθαι]], [[βαρύνεσθαι]].

[[fall]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[πίπτειν]], [[καταπίπτειν]] ([[Euripides]], ''Cyclops''), [[verse|V.]] [[πίτνειν]].

[[fail in strength]]: [[verse|V.]] [[προλείπω]], [[προλείπειν]]; see [[fail]].

[[already she is sinking and like to die]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ἤδη προνωπής ἐστι καὶ ψυχορραγεῖ]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Alcibiades]]'' 143).

[[his head sinks back]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ὑπτιάζεται κάρα]] ([[Sophocles]], ''[[Philoctetes]]'' 822).

[[I sink backwards into the arms of my maidens and swoon away]]: [[verse|V.]] ὑπτία δε κλίνομαι… πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι ([[Sophocles]], ''[[Antigone]]'' 1188).

[[she sinks back with trembling limbs]]: [[verse|V.]] [[λεχρία πάλιν χωρεῖ τρέμουσα κῶλα]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Medea]]'' 1168).

of [[ground]] [[dipping]]: see under [[dip]].

[[fall away]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[διαρρεῖν]], [[ἀπορρεῖν]]; see [[fade]].

[[deteriorate]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἀποκλίνειν]], [[ἐκπίπτειν]]; see [[degenerate]].

[[sink into inaction]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐπὶ τὸ ῥᾳθυμεῖν ἀποκλίνειν]] ([[Demosthenes|Dem.]] 13).

[[sunk in]] (Met.): use [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[μεστός]] (gen.); see [[full]] of.

[[be sunk in love]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ἐντήκεσθαι τῷ φιλεῖν]] ([[Sophocles]] ''[[Trachiniae]]'' 463); see [[absorb]]ed in.

[[be sunk in ignorance]] [[prose|P.]] [[ἐν ἀμαθίᾳ μολύνεσθαι]] ([[Plato]], ''[[Republic]]'' 535E).

[[sink into]], [[be instilled into]], Met.: [[prose|P.]] [[καταδύεσθαι εἰς]] (acc.), [[verse|V.]] [[ἐντήκεσθαι]] (dat.).

[[sink into insignificance]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ εἶναι]].
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