silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
to break the silence; to break one's silence
(attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom; crushing defeat; utter failure; complete exhaustion; collapsing (onto a bed, desk, etc.)
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
low spirits; depression; dejection; discouragement; despondency
calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
calming down; quieting down
depression; low spirits; dejection
melancholy; gloom; depression
composure; calmness; self-possession; depositing (at the bottom); deposition; accumulation
precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)
contemplation; meditation
sinking instantly (of a ship due to a torpedo attack, bombing, etc.)
settling down; quieting down; cooling down; stillness; quiet; tranquility
floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs
calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
being lost in deep thought
sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells); precipitation; settling; subsidence (e.g. of land); sinking; submerging
land subsidence; decline in influence
sinking into deep thought; sinking to the depths; contemplation
calm; composed; collected; silently (of the passing of the night); quietly
winter daphne (Daphne odora)
sediment; deposit; precipitate; sludge; lees
composed courage; calm courage
hum; meditation; painstaking elaboration on one's poem; groaning in distress
sinking into obscurity; coming down in the world; being ruined; sinking deeply
silent (esp. of the passing of the night); piercing (cold)
sunken ship; submerged vessel
sedimentation (rate) of blood cells
Silent Spring (book by Rachel Carson, 1962)
unsinkable aircraft carrier
being immersed in water; being drowned; being infatuated; being dazed; being blinded by
speech is silver, silence is golden
charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (lit.) (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame
sedimentation; deposition
bridge designed to be underwater during a flood
gold-inlaid lacquerware (using powdered gold in etched grooves)
sediment; hypostatis; sludge
charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame
erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
decline of energy and vigour (vigor)
precipitation tank; settling tank; sedimentation tank
weight (of a fishing net); sinker (on a fishing line)
sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan (allegedly by a North Korean torpedo; March 26, 2010)
deposit; sediment; sedimentation
submerged plant; submerged vegetation
erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
deposition rate; deposition fraction
underwater tunnel construction by sinking prefabricated box culverts
submergent coastline; submerged coast; submerged shoreline
speech is silver, silence is golden
Deep Submergence Systems Project; DSSP
silent trade; dumb barter; depot trade
precipitant; precipitator; precipitating agent
small things in sufficient quantity can have a large influence; (lit.) a large pile of feathers sinks a ship
urinary sediment (e.g. in urinalysis)