WordNet: sinking

a descent as through liquid (especially through water); "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic"

• hypernym descent

• hyponym settling, subsidence, subsiding

• hyponym immersion, submergence, submerging, submersion

• hyponym foundering, going under

sinking

• (englanti) sink (derivationally related)
• (suomi) uppoaminen (synonyymi)