crash vs sink

crash

verb
  • To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate. 

  • To hit or strike with force 

  • To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight. 

  • To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion. 

  • To give, as a favor. 

  • To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it. 

  • To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently. 

  • To terminate extraordinarily. 

  • To cause to terminate extraordinarily. 

  • To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated. 

  • To make a sudden loud noise. 

  • To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else. 

adj
  • Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu. 

noun
  • A type of rough linen. 

  • A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals. 

  • A group of rhinoceroses. 

  • An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. 

  • A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures). 

  • A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction. 

  • A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable. 

  • A comedown from a drug. 

sink

verb
  • To cause to decline; to depress or degrade. 

  • To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals. 

  • To drink (especially something alcoholic). 

  • To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight. 

  • To push (something) into something. 

  • To make by digging or delving. 

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

  • To pay absolutely. 

  • To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength. 

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

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

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

noun
  • An object or callback that captures events; an event sink. 

  • A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery. 

  • Descending motion; descent. 

  • A depression in a stereotype plate. 

  • A destination vertex in a transportation network. 

  • An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place. 

  • A sinkhole. 

  • A drain for carrying off wastewater. 

  • An excavation smaller than a shaft. 

  • A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source. 

  • One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation. 

  • A basin used for holding water for washing. 

  • A heat sink. 

  • A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet. 

  • The motion of a sinker pitch. 

  • A place that absorbs resources or energy. 

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