The difference between Sink and Submerge

When used as verbs, sink means to descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance, whereas submerge means to sink out of sight.

Sink is also noun with the meaning: a basin used for holding water for washing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sink and Submerge

  1. Sink as a verb (physical):

    To move or be moved into something. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight. To push (something) into something. To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.

    Examples:

    "A stone sinks in water.  nowrap The sun gradually sank in the west."

    "The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.  nowrap The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg."

  2. Sink as a verb (social):

    To diminish or be diminished. To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression. To cause to decline; to depress or degrade. To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

    Examples:

    "to sink one's reputation"

  3. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To conceal and appropriate.

  4. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

  5. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To reduce or extinguish by payment.

    Examples:

    "to sink the national debt"

  6. Sink as a verb (intransitive):

    To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

  7. Sink as a verb (intransitive):

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

  1. Sink as a noun:

    A basin used for holding water for washing

  2. Sink as a noun:

    A drain for carrying off wastewater

  3. Sink as a noun (geology):

    A sinkhole

  4. Sink as a noun:

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

  5. Sink as a noun:

    A heat sink

  6. Sink as a noun:

    A place that absorbs resources or energy

  7. Sink as a noun (baseball):

    The motion of a sinker pitch

    Examples:

    "Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink."

  8. Sink as a noun (computing, programming):

    An object or callback that captures events; event sink

  9. Sink as a noun (graph theory):

    a destination vertex in a transportation network

  1. Submerge as a verb (intransitive):

    To sink out of sight.

    Examples:

    "The submarine submerged in the water."

  2. Submerge as a verb (transitive):

    To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.

    Examples:

    "In films many people are murdered by being submerged in swimming pools."

  3. Submerge as a verb (transitive, figurative):

    To be engulfed in or overwhelmed by something.

    Examples:

    " Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow."

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