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Перевод: sinking

[прилагательное]
погружающийся; тонущий;
[существительное]
погружение; потопление; опускание; осадка ; проходка

Тезаурус:

1. Immediately after the sinking, all computers aboard the rest of the task force in the south Atlantic were reprogrammed to correct the error.
2. It was like revisiting that horrible first sinking feeling.
3. "Sir Vivien is the eleventh baronet and is the only surviving son of Sir Tregarron Blacker, the celebrated big-game hunter who died in the sinking of the Titanic , together with his wife, Lady Mabel.
4. He has lost half a stone since his move from Tottenham, partly, he thinks, because French players do not have the English habit of sinking a few post-match lagers.
5. I could see her face now, Mum's face, eyeshadow and lipstick perfect as always, struggling there in the thick slimy mud - gasping, sinking
6. It was an event, akin to the sinking of the Titanic , that rocked society at a moment of supreme self-congratulation and brought home to a people intoxicated with science and progress the existence of an admonitory Deity.
7. After the verdict his wife sang, in chorus with her supporters in the courtroom: "On Christ the solid rock I stand/ All other ground is sinking sand".
8. She had returned since his death and was now drifting, "sinking lower, cadging, getting drink where possible - a pitiable object.
9. It is hard to imagine what role it could have played in the prevention or aftermath of events such as the Piper Alpha oil platform explosion in the North Sea, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster or the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat on the Thames, for instance.
10. Every time he felt himself sinking, Nails' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam's apple and lifted his head clear of the water.
11. Semi-conscious, he slid slowly down, his feet and legs sinking into the freezing slush at the bottom.
12. Most of Scotland is still rising but the south-east of England is sinking by 15cm a century.
13. Such a basic prescription indicated how low the readership was sinking.