1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sink.

2. (a. & n.) from Sink.

Brownian movement advance aging angular motion anxious apprehensive ascending ascent axial axial motion back back-flowing backflowing backing backward backward motion bad baptism burial career climbing collapsing coming apart concavity course cracking crumbling current de-escalation debasement decadent deciduous declining declivitous decurrent deepening degenerate degradation dejected demotion depressed depression descendant descending descent desolate despaired of despairing deteriorating detrusion digging diminishing diminution dip dipping disintegrating doleful dolorous done for doting dousing down down-reaching down-trending downcoming downfalling downgoing downhill downsinking downward downward motion draining drift driftage drifting drilling drooping dropping duck ducking dunking dwindling dying ebbing effete engulfment excavation expiring facing death fading failing falling flagging flight flow flowing fluent flux flying forlorn forward motion fragmenting fretful getting on given up going going to pieces growing old gyrational gyratory hauling down heavy-laden hollowness hopeless immergence immersion in articulo mortis in extremis incapable of life inundation jittery jumpy languishing low lowering marcescent mining miserable moribund mounting mournful near death nervous nonviable oblique motion on the descendant on the downgrade ongoing onrush passage passing pining plummeting plunging probing progress progressive queasy radial motion random motion receding reduction reflowing refluence refluent reflux regression regressive retiring retreating retrograde retrogression retrogressive rising rotary rotational rotatory run running rush rushing sagging senescent set setting shaky shrinking shriveling sideward sideward motion sinkage sliding slipping slipping away slumping soaring souse sousing sternway stream streaming stricken submergence submerging submersion subsiding tabetic tense terminal thrusting under tottering traject trajet trend tumbledown tunneling uneasy unquiet up-trending upward upward motion waning wasting wilting withering woeful worsening