sink

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verb transitive

sink (a ship): Ar. and P. καταδύνειν.

put an end to: Ar. and P. διαλύω, διαλύειν, καταλύω, καταλύειν; see end.

let down: P. and V. καθιέναι.

dig: P. and V. ὀρύσσειν, σκάπτειν.

make to incline: V. καταρρέπειν, P. and V. κλίνειν.

verb intransitive

subside, settle down: P. ἱζάνειν.

sink under the earth: P. δύεσθαι κατὰ τῆς γῆς (Plato, Phaedo, 112C).

of the sun: P. and V. δύεσθαι, δύνειν; see set.

of a ship: Ar. and P. καταδύεσθαι, V. βάπτειν (Eur., Orestes 707).

incline downwards: P. and V. ῥέπειν.

Met., be weighed down: P. and V. πιέζεσθαι, βαρύνεσθαι.

fall: P. and V. πίπτειν, καταπίπτειν (Eur., Cyclops), V. πίτνειν.

fail in strength: V. προλείπω, προλείπειν; see fail.

already she is sinking and like to die: V. ἤδη προνωπής ἐστι καὶ ψυχορραγεῖ (Eur., Alcibiades 143).

his head sinks back: V. ὑπτιάζεται κάρα (Sophocles, Philoctetes 822).

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

she sinks back with trembling limbs: V. λεχρία πάλιν χωρεῖ τρέμουσα κῶλα (Eur., Medea 1168).

of ground dipping: see under dip.

fall away: P. and V. διαρρεῖν, ἀπορρεῖν; see fade.

deteriorate: P. ἀποκλίνειν, ἐκπίπτειν; see degenerate.

sink into inaction: P. ἐπὶ τὸ ῥᾳθυμεῖν ἀποκλίνειν (Dem. 13).

sunk in (Met.): use P. and V. μεστός (gen.); see full of.

be sunk in love: V. ἐντήκεσθαι τῷ φιλεῖν (Sophocles Trachiniae 463); see absorbed in.

be sunk in ignorance P. ἐν ἀμαθίᾳ μολύνεσθαι (Plato, Republic 535E).

sink into, be instilled into, Met.: P. καταδύεσθαι εἰς (acc.), V. ἐντήκεσθαι (dat.).

sink into insignificance: P. ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ εἶναι.