# sinking

Pronunciation: say "SING-king" /ˈsɪŋkɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of sink. — present participle and gerund of sink
   - Simple: Present participle of sink. Use this -ing form when something is going down into water or dropping lower right now.
   - _The ferry was sinking by the bow as passengers scrambled toward the lifeboats._
   - _He felt his spirits sinking with every piece of bad news that arrived._

## Noun

2. Gerund of sink. — gerund of sink: the process by which something sinks, or is sunk.
   - Simple: Gerund of sink. It names the action of something going down into water or below a surface, or being put down.
   - _The sinking of the freighter became the subject of a long inquiry._
   - _Engineers measured the gradual sinking of the bridge piers over a decade._

## Origin

Formed from the word "sink" combined with the suffix "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sinking (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).