sinking (n.)
- advance
- aging
- ascending
- ascent
- back
- backflowing
- backing
- backward
- bad
- baptism
- burial
- career
- climbing
- concavity
- course
- cracking
- current
- de-escalation
- debasement
- decadent
- deepening
- degenerate
- degradation
- demotion
- depression
- descendant
- descent
- digging
- diminution
- dip
- dipping
- dousing
- down
- downhill
- drift
- driftage
- drifting
- drilling
- dropping
- duck
- ducking
- dwindling
- dying
- ebbing
- excavation
- fading
- failing
- flagging
- flight
- flow
- flowing
- fluent
- flux
- flying
- going
- hollowness
- immersion
- inundation
- low
- lowering
- mining
- mounting
- onrush
- passage
- passing
- pining
- progress
- progressive
- receding
- reduction
- reflux
- regression
- retrogression
- rising
- rotary
- run
- running
- rush
- rushing
- set
- setting
- shrinking
- sliding
- soaring
- souse
- sousing
- stream
- streaming
- submergence
- submerging
- submersion
- subsiding
- tense
- terminal
- trend
- waning
- wasting
- wilting
- withering
- worsening
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
On parent knees, a naked new-born child,
Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled;
So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep,
Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
