SINK


Meaning of SINK in English

n.

Function: noun

1 a place marked by a staggering amount of corruption and filth FF1C; that area of the city was a sink of vice and crime FF1E;

Synonyms: Augean stable, cesspit, cesspool, den, pandemonium, Sodom, sty

Related Words: hellhole; fleshpot

Idioms: Alsatian den, den of iniquity, sink of corruption

2

Synonyms: DEPRESSION 2, basin, concavity, dip, hollow, sag, sinkage, sinkhole

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