Verb

To move or be moved into something.

#(lb) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.

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#(lb) To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.

#(lb) To push (something) into something.

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# To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.

#*2008 , Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel

#*:My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.

To diminish or be diminished.

# To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.

#*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Ch.21:

#*:I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.

#*1915 , , The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston; ch. XIX:

#*:Peter's heart sank . "Don't you think it is dreadful?" he asked.

# To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:If I have a conscience, let it sink me.

#* (1674-1718)

#*:Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power / Has sunk thy father more than all his years.

#(lb) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

#*2013 , Steve Henschel, Niagara This Week , April 24:

#*:Who would sink so low as to steal change from veterans?

To conceal and appropriate.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account.

To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

* (1721-1793)

*:a courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths

To reduce or extinguish by payment.

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(lb) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.

*(rfdate) John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

*:Let not the fire sink or slacken.

(lb) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

*(rfdate) (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him.

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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

Verb

(escap)

To get free, to free oneself.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}

To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

* Shakespeare

sailors that escaped the wreck

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd , passage=Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.}}

To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

* Ludlow

They escaped the search of the enemy.

(computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.

* 1998 August, (Tim Berners-Lee) et al. , Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:

If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Scott Worley, chapter=Using XML in ASP.NET Applications

, title= Inside ASP.NET , isbn=0735711356, page=214 , passage=Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Michael Cross, chapter=Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering

, title= Developer's Guide to Web Application Security , isbn=159749061X, page=213 , passage=Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTML escaping function.}}

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.