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Main Entry: sink
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fall in, go under

Synonyms:

bore, bring down, capsize, cast down, cave in, couch, decline, demit, depress, descend, dig, dip, disappear, drill, drive, droop, drop, drown, ebb, engulf, excavate, fall, flounder, force down, founder, go down, go to the bottom, immerse, lay, let down, lower, overturn, overwhelm, plummet, plunge, put down, ram, regress, run, sag, scuttle, set, settle, shipwreck, slope, slump, stab, stick, stoop, submerge, subside, swamp, thrust, tip over, touch bottom, wreck

Antonyms:

float, rise
Main Entry: sink
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fall, decrease

Synonyms:

abate, collapse, diminish, drop, lapse, lessen, relapse, retrogress, slip, slump, subside, wane

Antonyms:

grow, increase, rise
Main Entry: sink
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deteriorate

Synonyms:

decay, decline, decrease, degenerate, depreciate, descend, die, diminish, disimprove, disintegrate, dwindle, fade, fail, flag, go downhill, lessen, retrograde, rot, spoil, waste, weaken, worsen

Antonyms:

increase, rise, strengthen
Main Entry: sink
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be humble or humbled

Synonyms:

abase, be reduced to, bemean, cast down, debase, degrade, demean, humiliate, lower, stoop, succumb

Antonyms:

brave, fight
Main Entry: bog down
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stick; become stuck

Synonyms:

decelerate, delay, detain, halt, hang up, impede, retard, set back, sink, slacken, slow down, slow up, stall
Main Entry: bore
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: drill hole

Synonyms:

burrow, gouge out, mine, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pit, prick, punch, puncture, ream, riddle, sink, tunnel
Notes: a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious
Main Entry: bury
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plant in ground

Synonyms:

drive in, embed, engulf, implant, sink, submerge

Antonyms:

dig out
Main Entry: cancel
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: call off; erase

Synonyms:

X-out, abolish, abort, abrogate, annul, ax, black out, blot out, break, break off, countermand, cross out, cut, deface, delete, destroy, do away with, do in, efface, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, finish off, go back on one's word, kill, obliterate, off*, omit, quash, remove, render invalid, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, rub out, scratch out, scrub, sink*, smash, squash, stamp across, strike out, torpedo, total*, trash*, trim*, undo, wash out, wipe out, wipe slate clean, zap

Antonyms:

allow, approve, arrange, establish, permit, uphold
Main Entry: contract
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: catch disease

Synonyms:

acquire, afflict, be afflicted with, be ill with, become infected with, bring on, cause, come down with, decline, derange, develop, disorder, fall, fall victim to, get, go down with, incur, indispose, induce, obtain, sicken, sink, succumb to, take, take one's death, upset, weaken

Antonyms:

give
Main Entry: debase
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: degrade, shame

Synonyms:

abase, bemean, cast down, cheapen, corrupt, cripple, debauch, debilitate, demean, demoralize, deprave, devaluate, devalue, disable, disgrace, dishonor, drag down, dump on, enfeeble, fluff off, humble, humiliate, lower, put away, put down, reduce, sap, shoot down, sink, take down a peg, take down, undermine, weaken

Antonyms:

elevate, honor, laud, praise, upgrade, value
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