SINK Copy link • SINK 1. s. latrina (for impurities). Vid :, also, SEWERS. 2. v. Intransitively, PROP., sidere (to go to the bottom): considere (to see down together): desidere (to go downward): residere: subsidere (to go down gradually): mergi: demergi (to go down in water; to be sunk, as ships, etc.). To be sunk in a deep sleep, somno mergi (Liv., 41, 3); artus somnus aliquem complectitur (Cic., Somn., 2). Figuratively, To fall, go to ruin, cadere: considere: corruere (quickly, violently): labi: exstingui: demergi: inclinari: one’s courage sinks, animum demittere or submittere; animo cadere or deficere: he is sunk deeply in depravity, est moribus admodum corrupts; prorsus a virtute descivit: to sink below the level of the brutes, omnem humanitatem ita exuere, ut vix bestiae aequiparandum sit aliquis: sinking Latinity, Latinitas labens (opposed to florens; Ruhnken). Transitively, demittere: submittere. To sink a well, puteum fodere (Plaut.), effodere (Col.), imprimere (Pallad.). To sink a ditch, fossam deprimere: to sink a ship, navem deprimere (the proper word, summergere †): he sank a ship at the entrance of the harbor (i. e., to block up the entrance), faucibus portus navem (onerariam) summersam objecit (Caes., B.C., 3, 39, 2): the cheeks sink in, genae labuntur (Sen., Hipp., 364): sunk eyes, oculi concavi, conditi, abditi, or latentes.